Posted on 11 March 2011. Tags: Amphiesma stolatum, striped keelback snake, thailand snake with stripes, thailand striped keelback
Here’s another submission from Paul Donatus, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is a striped keelback – nice looking snakes that we don’t see here in the south at all. I’ve seen none of them, so I think they are much more common in the northern parts of the country. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia [...]
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Posted on 04 March 2011. Tags: deadly krait, deadly snake photo, krait photo, malayan blue krait, malaysian snakes, snake photos, thailand snakes
Though this photo was actually submitted by a guy in Borneo, Malaysia – thanks Ryzal Manan! – this Banded Krait looks exactly as one in Thailand might look so I wanted to share the image with you. This snake is quite deadly – and should be avoided at all costs. Yellow Banded Kraits and Malayan [...]
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Posted on 03 February 2011. Tags: nonthaburi snakes, rat snake thailand, thailand non venomous snakes, thailand snakes
Some of them are killed as they do so. Got contacted by a guy in Nonthaburi – they had 2 big rat snakes mating in their garden. They called the security guys for the housing complex who insisted these rat snakes were closely related to the cobras – and called Coconut snakes. What the hell? [...]
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Posted on 22 January 2011. Tags: cat snake, green cat snake, identify snake, snake id, snake identification thailand
Geoff Deady sent this great photo of a snake on the beach in Chumphon to have identified. I called it a Green Cat Snake. At least that’s what I called it. He said it was about a meter long and 2-3 fingers thick with a reddish tail. The coloring of the top – and light [...]
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