Thread: Animal invasion!

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I believe it is called "gin trap teeth",...

That's interesting. I've heard that term applied to a Tiger Fish's teeth once, but never a snake. I must say it's quite appropriate.



The nonvenomous terrestrial/arboreal species usually leave a fairly clean bite. However, water snakes can inflict a very nasty infectious bite, with or without teeth left behind.

Originally Posted by RandomChances

We had a cobra hiding behind the fridge in the shop about 4 days ago....killed that though as it was too dangerous just to leave and of course no one would go into the shop.

How did you kill it? Yourself or someone else?

I freely admit to being completely, irrationally shit-scared of snakes. Don't know why...other than almost stepping on a death adder when I was about 10, the occasional carpet snake in Queensland, and a couple of green snakes here, I've never actually had an encounter of any sort.

They just freak me...and no amount of calling me a woos is going to get me to move a fridge to kill a cobra!

Originally Posted by Torbek

How did you kill it? Yourself or someone else?

Two of us, my mate has fork type thing on a pole (I think meant for fish). He traped it with that then I hit it with a big piece of wood....moving the fridge was the dodgy part

Gig?

^ thats the one

Here's one of those centipede buggers. I think it's called the Asian Tiger Leg Centipede, but I'm not sure about that.



The real ones are 5-6 inches long.

Hmmm. Just googled it and now I think it's just the Giant Asian Centipede.

There's another, more common variety, with a more rounded body, like a mini Frankfurter and it's got more legs as well. The baby ones have coloured legs and/or trunk, I have seen green/red ones.

I was wrong for attacking TT in this thread and apologise to him and the rest of you for that. My mistake and noted.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Find this crossing the street near my home.
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That's a monitor lizard, and looks like a Varanus salvadorii or more commonly known as a crocodile monitor. Its coloring is quite light though, so I'm not sure.

Varanus salvadorii

A lot of people think those millipedes bite but I don’t think they do. A colleague had picked one up the other day and it just curled into a ball. I have had two centipedes in the flat – I live in central Bangkok. First one about 4-5 inches and second one about 3 inches. Both in my towel as I came out the shower – running across my body. Do these small ones bite? They did not bite me.

Damn Doo Kae in the bathroom tonight.

I told the missus to get rid of it and she tried to pick it up, of course it lunged at her so she screamed grabbed the mop and chased it to the ceiling where we couldn't reach it.

SO i had to stand on the bog and knock it down wher eit hid behind the toilet.

I squirted it with the bum gun and the fucker ran at me. I screamed like a bitch and ran out with the missus laughing away at me.

Clever bitch got the bin and the doo kae ran into it and she took it outside.

She has now been running about the house screaming and pretending to be a scared farang.

It was fucking huge

(it was a bit bigger than a gecko)

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

...(it was a bit bigger than a gecko)

Just thought I'd mention that a Tokay is a Gecko. They can inflict a nasty bite, if you let them.

Yes, but their not the same as those tinsy little house ghekos that are so cute and common.

I think it's the same species, a few months/years later!
We got a few of those, the droppings of the small ones are like a black rice-grain with a white bit at one end, the droppings of the big ones are just a bigger version of it.

Slipped on it a few times heading for the bathroom late at night.