Thailand Snakes | Venomous | Photos | Videos | Facts | Identification

I found a lovely specimen of the Ptyas carinata snake on the way down a mountain this evening. It was about 6:45 pm and the sun had set 15 minutes before. I was running down the steps and took a few seconds to breathe – when I saw the snake on some limestone rocks beside [...]

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Two of my friends went out and caught what we think is a yellow spotted keelback snake in a pond. It got away from them once, and headed right back into an adjacent water pond. Thailand keelback snakes love water. Yellow spotted keelback photo and video: Thailand Yellow Spotted Keelback Video:   Join the forum [...]

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Red-headed Krait found while herping in Thailand Yesterday I headed out to herp with a guy from the UK. We chose a jungle that bordered a national park for our adventure and walked around for just over an hour when we came upon a snake climbing up the side of a 5 foot wall of [...]

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This one is interesting… I found it at the top of a small limestone mountain. It’s like a keelback, and like a Ptyas korros. A juvenile. Green – dark green on top – solid pattern, no fluctuation. Bottom is dark grey. It’s about 1 foot long. Will get some photos and video and put them [...]

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I did a quick snake-hunt yesterday in the middle of the afternoon sun. I just found myself in proximity to a place I love to climb, a mountain about 50 minutes away by motorbike, and I decided to walk a bit and see what I could find. I found some spiders, lizards – mountain dragons, [...]

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I climbed a mountain I often do – it’s very steep. There are steps up it – 1,237 steps. At about step 850 I saw a snake crawling between the limestone rock and the step. I thought I knew what it was, but it was a juvenile – and you know how that goes. Thailand [...]

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I thought I’d write up a list of Thailand snakes I’ve caught – just to keep track. I realized the other day that I forgot a couple I caught early-on, and I don’t want to forget any of them. Here’s a list of both venomous and non-venomous (rear-fanged included) snakes I’ve caught. Scientific classification will [...]

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I won’t say where I saw this, but I saw it first-hand. My friend that keeps monocled cobras – Naja kaouthia – has turned it into somewhat of a business. Sometimes people come to him for the fresh head of a monocled cobra – which is what happened the other day. I arrived just at [...]

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Screeched the car to a stop and jammed it into park as I saw this 1.6m Ahaetulla prasina crossing the road in front of me. He made it into the bush, but I grabbed onto his tail firmly and he was mine. He was really beautiful and I bagged him and kept him for a [...]

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Finally caught one of these buggers. They are rather rare in southern Thailand, but tonight I was able to bag one and will take some images and videos in the morning. These snakes have a very high morbidity rate for victims bitten, and though I used a lot of care when catching and bagging it [...]

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