Posted on 19 December 2011. Tags: banded krait bite, deadly snake bite thailand, thailand snake shows
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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Posted on 19 January 2011. Tags: Python molur bivittatus, rare gold python, thailand gold python, thailand python snake, thailand snake news, thailand snakes
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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Posted on 18 December 2010. Tags: cobra bite, Naja kaouthia bite, snake bite, thailand snake bite
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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Posted on 04 December 2010. Tags: cobra kills man, thailand cobra kills expat
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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