I decided to create a Facebook group for Thailand snakes. It is just much easier to get photos up there, and since I haven’t put together a photo database of venomous and non-venomous snakes, I will do it over there because it’s so fast. Go check it out and “Like” it to join the page [...]
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Unidentified Snake
Posted on 21 February 2013.
A woman sent me this photo of a snake she said they found on an island in Thailand. Apparently the snake found them, it dropped out of a tree and landed on one of them. Another friend threw it off into the tree. I don’t recognize the snake. It almost looks like a krait, but [...]
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New Thailand Snake Species – Trimeresurus (Popeia) phuketensis
Posted on 25 January 2012.
I was at the Queen Saovabha Snake Farm in Bangkok (the Red Cross Snake Farm) on Sunday and was talking to the snake guy that does the presentation in English on various Thailand snakes. He mentioned that a new snake species was described from Phuket called the Trimeresurus phuketensis. Wow, how cool was that? He [...]
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Identify this Unique Thailand Lampshade
Posted on 07 December 2011.
Funny seeing this today upon entering one of the cages. Can you identify what it is around the lamp shade?
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Thailand Snake Identification Requests Way Down
Posted on 05 December 2011.
The snake ID link on the right side column of this site is for anyone that wants to find out what snake they saw in Thailand during their stay. Sometimes I can figure out what snake it is by the information given, and sometimes (usually) it’s a guess between a few different snakes. I’m not [...]
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Help Me Identify This Snake – Oligodon Genus? Species?
Posted on 14 November 2011.
I sent photos of a snake just like this one to a couple biologists about 5 months back. Nobody could tell me what it was, based on appearance. A couple guys that have found new species in this area have said it is, without a doubt, from the Oligodon genus. They asked that I do [...]
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New Snake Species, or New to Thailand?
Posted on 13 November 2011.
I found another of these snakes today. They are quite hard to categorize. I’ll do scale counts tomorrow and see what I get. Previously I got 15-15-15 on the other I caught from the same area. This one I pulled out slowly from a hole he was half-buried in. We were up about 200 meters [...]
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Are There MANY Snakes in Thailand?
Posted on 31 August 2011.
I just went back and counted up how many times people in Thailand submitted a Snake ID request through the form on the right side column link. 478 times in 10 months. That’s a lot of people seeing snakes, but really is just a tiny fraction of everyone that sees snakes in Thailand. Some don’t [...]
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300+ Snakes Identified at Thailand Snakes (.com)
Posted on 23 June 2011.
In a way, I’m getting hammered with requests to identify snakes in Thailand. I think someone has to do it, and I’m glad I can help. I’m sure I’m wrong occasionally, but, for the most part the snakes are easy to identify from photos sent to my email account. If you don’t have a photo [...]
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Snakes are Mating in Thailand at the Moment
Posted on 03 February 2011.
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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