One of the top 10 most toxic terrestrial venomous snakes in the world resides in Thailand, and is 2nd behind the Bungarus multicinctus in strength of venom, according to LD50 charts for subcutaneous venom injection (into mice), is the Malayan Krait, also called the Blue Krait.

I've been looking for one of these snakes in the wild for a couple of years. I don't herp at night all that much so it was really unlikely that I saw one for a bit of time – but I was due to see this one.

Here's the story I put on Youtube about how it came to be that I caught this beautiful krait…

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This is the mack daddy of all snakes in Thailand, for me. I've seen —- cobras in the wild. I've caught monocled cobras…