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

I get a lot of comments at my Youtube videos – people asking whether snakes are all over Thailand. They’re worried that they are going to be seeing snakes at every turn. Nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases, anyway. There are some people that write me on this site for Snake [...]

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These are great snakes. They get big. This one is 2.75m. This is another one that hasn’t calmed down since being caught. They are rat snakes, so that’s what they prefer. Unfortunately we don’t see many rats around this area so I couldn’t catch one to feed it to him if I wanted to. If [...]

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I had a juvenile striped bronzeback a little while back – video here. These are fast, tree climbing snakes that are active during the daytime and are frequently found in residential areas. They love frogs and lizards, from what I’ve seen them eat. These snakes are exceptionally beautiful. They are rather nervous – meaning, they [...]

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These are like the road runner of snakes – they are super fast, thin, and agile. They can climb trees and bushes faster than any other snake I’ve seen, and they are wicked fast on the strike. Yesterday I saw one strike so fast I couldn’t see it. That’s fast. These are very common snakes [...]

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Some herpetologists believe this snake only occurs north of Krabi. I found one today – a juvenile, dead on the road (sea level), at bottom of Khao Phanom Bencha mountain chain where it ends near Krabi Town (Krabi Noi). Here’s the link to Joachim’s page. Also saw another Malayan Krait – a juvenile this time. [...]

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See if you can name this Thailand snake – it is in a plastic bottle and I stuck the lens right up at the opening and fired a few off. For many of you this will be child’s play, I’ll kill the comments on this page. You can write me if you think you know [...]

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It’s mating season now for a lot of snakes in Thailand. The eggs and young start to arrive about April-May, and into June-July timeframe. That means some snakes are on the move to find a mate and you may find them outside more often than other times, but definitely not more than you would find [...]

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I met this guy “Henning” through this site – he sent me an email requesting ID of a juvenile snake that we figured out after a couple days… a juvenile sunbeam snake. Now we’ve been writing back and forth many times and I’ve come to know him a little bit. Henning is from Norway. He’s [...]

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I’ve started a page on which I hope to have listed for identification purposes all the snakes of Thailand, including venomous and non-venomous species listed by name, with photos and some more information. I hope to use this for identification when I’m out in the field because there are many snakes of the same species [...]

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A reader sent me this small image of a king cobra found while he was on vacation in Laos. The king cobras in the northeast of Thailand are dark like this – black even, and they all have these light colored bands across the body. This one looks to be a juvenile king cobra because [...]

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