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