Here are some snake photos I’ve taken over the years in Thailand. If you want to add yours – send them and tell me your full name for the copyright notice.
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Red Necked keelback – do not keep as a pet – can cause serious kidney damage.
Reticulated Pythons – biggest Thailand snake. Constrictors, no venom.
Dog Toothed Cat Snake.
Red Tailed Racers have blue and black tongues.
Nothing more awesome than a big king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Malayan Bridle Snakes look just like Malayan Kraits – and yet, not dangerous.
Angry King Cobras strike with mouth open.
Red Tailed Racers have green or blue eyes.
Paradise Tree Snake eating gecko. Copyright David Joseph.
Speckled Coral Snake – Venomous, probably deadly, but the mouth is too small to bite humans easily.
Green Pit Viper – copyright Jeremy ________ (will add name here shortly)
Indo Malayan Mountain Pit Viper – a small boy was kicking this when his father saw him.
Ridley’s Racer – rat snake, common in caves catching bats out of the air.
Juvenile striped bronzeback snake.
Small Malalan Pit Viper in water bottle.
Bronzeback snake.
Juvenile Red Necked Keelback. Dangerous, potentially deadly, venomous, and poisonous.
Red Tailed Racers – one of the favorite foods for king cobras.
Checkered Keelback – Xenochrophis piscator (ID not 100%)
Red Tailed Pipe Snake – harmless, great snake to introduce to kids.
Copperheaded Racer – rat snake. Not dangerous.
Golden Tree Snake
Brown Whip Snake – very uncommon in Thailand.
Red Tailed racers can often be hand-held without biting.
Girl holding a red tailed racer (rat snake) – harmless.
Monocled Cobra bite (Naja kaouthia) this was about 4th time bitten.
A very fast King Cobra – we have a video about this one. Wow.
Rat Snake bites a king cobra.
Golden Tree Snake – aka Flying Snake. Not dangerous. Quite fast in trees.
Blood python – very, very strong.
Malayan Pit Viper. Copyright John Helm.
Juvenile Monocled Cobra – quite deadly when small too.
Mangrove Pit Viper – my favorite viper
Puff Faced Water Snake – Homalopsis buccata. Usually don’t bite – this one struck a lot.
Red Necked Keelbacks are now considered quite dangerous and potentially deadly.
Another Mangrove Pit Viper – color variation is wide. Copyright Carlton.
Keeled Rat Snake – Ptyas carinatus – in front of blood python.
A bitey puff-faced watersnake (Homalopsis buccata).
Oriental Whip Snake – not dangerous. Come in brown too.
Mangrove Pit Viper found in Krabi mangroves.
Malayan Pit VIper in a red / pink variety
Luke Yeomans sent this with an email as we corresponded. A baby king cobra.
