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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Golden Tree Snake – aka Flying Snake. Not dangerous. Quite fast in trees.
Jackie hand-holding Monocled Cobra
Malayan Pit Viper – venomous – deadly.
Indo Malayan Mountain Pit Viper – a small boy was kicking this when his father saw him.
Malayan Pit Viper. Copyright John Helm.
Dangerous and potentially deadly, this small snake looks harmless enough. The Small-spotted Coral Snake (Calliophis maculiceps).
Juvenile Red Necked Keelback. Dangerous, potentially deadly, venomous, and poisonous.
Keeled Rat Snake – Ptyas carinatus – in front of blood python.
Wagler’s Pit Viper Copyright – Emilios Kattides
Golden Tree Snake
Puff Faced Water Snake – Homalopsis buccata. Usually don’t bite – this one struck a lot.
Angry King Cobras strike with mouth open.
Mangrove Cat Snake – slightly venomous
Malayan Pit Viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma)
Copperheaded Racer – rat snake. Not dangerous.
Brown Whip Snake – very uncommon in Thailand.
A bitey puff-faced watersnake (Homalopsis buccata).
Bronzeback snake.
Dog Toothed Cat Snake.
A very fast King Cobra – we have a video about this one. Wow.
Blood python – very, very strong.
Red Tailed Racers have blue and black tongues.
Malayan Bridle Snakes look just like Malayan Kraits – and yet, not dangerous.
Red Tailed Racers have green or blue eyes.
Juvenile Monocled Cobra – quite deadly when small too.
Red Tailed Pipe Snake
Small Malalan Pit Viper in water bottle.
Red Tailed Racers – one of the favorite foods for king cobras.
Checkered Keelback – Xenochrophis piscator (ID not 100%)
Mangrove Pit Viper – my favorite viper
Red Tailed Pipe Snake – harmless, great snake to introduce to kids.
Copperheaded Racers and Indo-Chinese Rat Snakes – harmless.
Malayan Krait – deadly.
Speckled Coral Snake – Venomous, probably deadly, but the mouth is too small to bite humans easily.
Thailand Snakes covers venomous and non-venomous snakes in Thailand and surrounding countries. Cobras, Kraits, Vipers, Corals, Rat Snakes, Tree Snakes, Whip Snakes, Pipe Snakes, Kukris, Pythons, and more.
