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

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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Jackie is a snake handler and will be doing the Cobra shows in Ao Nang in a few months. He’s really friendly and goes out of his way to make visitors feel comfortable around the snakes. Here’s a video interview with Jackie about getting bitten by a reticulated python:

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Last night I dreamed that I was driving down the road in the back of a pickup truck. We started past a guy trying to catch something in a tree. I screamed – STOP! Told the driver to backup. I told the guy trying to catch a snake in the tree – I’ll get it! [...]

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Red Tailed Racers (rat snake) are one of my favorite snakes for the coloring, and the attitude. When they are aggravated at you they will flare up vertically the front 1/3 of their body and increase their thickness by double – or more. They look very big and apparently it helps to frighten away predators. [...]

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Chrysopelea ornata ornatissima are everywhere these days. Yesterday we were driving up a road outside the city where my wife saw what she described as either a Malayan Blue Krait, or possibly a Bridle or Wolf snake… when we saw a little – 30cm maybe, Golden Tree Snake trying to get across the road with [...]

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We were eating on some floating huts on a river -and I thought – this would make an ideal place for a snake to hang out… cool, thatched bamboo huts floating on a river in sunny Isaan Thailand. I inspected all the huts – and at the last one – bang – a prize… a [...]

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Well I was skunked. Lets just state that right from the start! It’s too cold here – about 20 degrees C. And very, very dry. I have heard that the snakes tend to hibernate more in the northeast during the winters – and now I believe it. I’m on a great piece of land – [...]

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Roaming around the northeast of Thailand lately and not finding any snakes at the moment. Quite cool – even COLD at night – and we all know how snakes don’t move much in the cold. I had a chance to go to the King Cobra Village – and passed it up. I’ll get there – [...]

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I tend to be really cautious about handling venomous snakes. Pit vipers are scary because you just never know when they’re going to strike. They’re very calm until WHAM a strike from nowhere. I think as soon as they get a good lock on the part of your body giving off heat – it’s almost [...]

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