Snakes - Thailand

[block2]

Hi All,

Just thought you might like to see a couple of pics of snakes that i have had close encounters with.

1. This is locally known a singa. Locals reckon a bite off these is quite serious. They are always around here, after the water rats and mice, frogs etc. Unfortuantly, when you see these you have to kill them as we have small children around here playing.

2. This snake i am not sure what it is, I thought some type of cobra. But i was at the local shop top of the drive having a chat with a couple of swiss friends and i heard my dogs barking, came to the gate and could not see anything, but they just kept barking, unknown to me there was this thing on a window sill behind me, and i only knew when I heard it fall and I see it go behind a load of rubbish.

Called to a Thai family member and he came over, told me to be careful, CAREFUL...I didn't want to be there, anyway it had went into a clay water pipe, he grabbed it tossed it in the air and when it broke... all hell broke loose, the thing reared right up, we both backed off, it made a swoop for my friend, and he managed to whack it with his stick then whacked it again then walked off...lol
Looked this snake up on the internet and came across this website,

http://www.mrx.no/Phuket/One_move_and_this...nd_you_die.html one bite off this beauty and your dead in 15 minutes....

I have since found out that this snake is a copperhead ratsnake which are not poisionious at all.
http://www.ratsnakes.com/Eradiata.html

Here's a couple of pics of a couple of snakes mating in the stream that runs along the side of the house.
I'm not that clued up with snakes, so i am not certain what type they are.

Regards
Jeff & Wan

 

[coura]

I would say the second one is a asian beauty snake and so completly harmless

 

[jeffers]

nice pics thanks for sharing. and glad you didnt get bit lol

 

[Sti]

Are both of those snakes dead? Perhaps someone in Thailand should start up a catch and release program if theres not one already. It would save you guys from potentially fatal encounters trying to kill these snakes and hopefully end in one less dead snake. If there is one there, perhaps you should try taking advantage of it.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Always better safe than sorry if you live in an area where venemous snakes are indigenous - sucks that they have to die, but the lives of humans are more important.

 

[Sti]

Always better safe than sorry if you live in an area where venemous snakes are indigenous - sucks that they have to die, but the lives of humans are more important.

I'd say if theres someone trained to identify and remove snakes, thats a far safer way to go about it. I bet more than half of the bites from venomous snakes happen when people are trying to kill the snake and it just backfires on them. I guess it is pretty easy for me to be biased here though since I only deal with a copperhead less than once a year though so I can understand where you all are coming from.

 

[mr.reef24]

wow those are beautiful snake's glad you didn't get hurt or bite.

mr.reef24

 

[uting]

nice.. .I had a close encounter with a Philippine cobra before I almost stepped on the poor thing.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

I'd say if theres someone trained to identify and remove snakes, thats a far safer way to go about it. I bet more than half of the bites from venomous snakes happen when people are trying to kill the snake and it just backfires on them. I guess it is pretty easy for me to be biased here though since I only deal with a copperhead less than once a year though so I can understand where you all are coming from.

Aren't most cobra's aggressive by standards of snakes, though?

I'm sure a lot of bites do happen as a result of people trying to kill snakes, but my point was that I'd rather kill any venemous snake on my property than have it bite my children.

Removal is a great way to go about things, if you can find an experienced person to do so. I have to remove and release rattlesnakes a lot from my grand parents property - and it still makes me nervous - even after I've got em' bagged.

 

[Sti]

Aren't most cobra's aggressive by standards of snakes, though?

I'm sure a lot of bites do happen as a result of people trying to kill snakes, but my point was that I'd rather kill any venemous snake on my property than have it bite my children.

Removal is a great way to go about things, if you can find an experienced person to do so. I have to remove and release rattlesnakes a lot from my grand parents property - and it still makes me nervous - even after I've got em' bagged.

Yea I agree with you in the thoughts that you would rather have to kill a venomous snake rather than have it bite anyone. The problem though is when you start killing anything that crawls on its belly. To me none of the snakes posted above look like venomous snakes to me. The second snake is surely not a venomous snake.