Article to read This was interesting reading. I’ve not heard of something like this for a long time here in Thailand. Apparently Thailand’s National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department officials raided 3 different snake ‘farms’ – which really aren’t farms at all, they’re just snake shows for tourists. Pythons, cobras, and other snakes were [...]
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Chiang Mai Snake, Thailand Snake Farms Raided
Posted on 04 October 2012.
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Are Snakes in Thailand Aggressive?
Posted on 22 August 2012.
I got a note from a woman that had spent some time in Thailand and she was terrified of snakes. Now that she made it through a successful stay without seeing one close enough to interact with – she is wondering how close she came to them, and whether the chance would be high of [...]
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Bitten by a Deadly Banded Krait in a Bangkok Bar
Posted on 19 December 2011.
I have a banded krait video (click) up at Youtube and I had a guy respond with a comment that I didn’t know whether to take seriously or not. Apparently it is true, he was bitten by a banded krait in 1995 while enjoying a night out in a Bangkok bar on Soi Cowboy. Some [...]
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Thailand Snake News: Rare Gold Python Bred in Captivity
Posted on 19 January 2011.
In Nakhon si Thammarat there is a zoo – and they’ve just successfully bred a very rare snake – the Thai Gold Python (Python molur bivittatus) - in captivity. There are 30 young pythons that will be distributed across the nation of Thailand. The article (below) says- ”The “gold Thai python” once lived in dry evergreen [...]
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Snake Bite! Thai Man Bitten by Monocled Cobra (Naja)
Posted on 18 December 2010.
I was visiting my friends at the snake show yesterday. One of them was bitten 5 days ago by a Naja kaouthia during one of the shows. It bit his leg through the pants – and got him with both fangs. Nobody expects this to be a life-threatening bite because he has been bitten 4 [...]
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Pet Cobra in Thailand Kills Expat – Or, Suicide?
Posted on 04 December 2010.
Pattaya, Thailand police are blaming a Naja kaouthia cobra for the December 2nd, 2010 death of an expat from Norway. This 60 year old man, Per Christian Lindgaard, kept the cobra as a pet in his condo apparently. Here’s what is strange about the whole thing… He was already admitted once to the hospital for [...]
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