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This mornings visitor. We haven't sorted out the species yet. I think it's a kind of juvenile rat snake but wifey doesn't agree.
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This mornings visitor. We haven't sorted out the species yet. I think it's a kind of juvenile rat snake but wifey doesn't agree.
possibly a type of Kukri, non venomous.
http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_oligodon.html
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Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Oligodon (Kukri Snakes)
Picture: R. Rauch
Oligodon purpurascens (Brown Kukri Snake)
Thai: https://teakdoor.com/assets/images/ThaiSnakeName-16.gif (ngu kut)
Length: Up to 95 cm
Occurrence:
Mostly in southern Thailand. According to literary references, (COX: The snakes of Thailand, COX et al. A photographic guide to the snakes of Thailand and Manthey & Grossman: Amphibians and reptiles of South East Asia) this snake is only to be found from southern Thailand downwards. COX states the occurrence area as the provinces of southern Thailand from Suratthani. However the animal which is illustrated here comes from the area of Pattaya. For this reason, it is likely that the habitat of this snake is wider than literature assumes.
Behaviour/habitat:
The snake is a resident of the primary and secondary woods up to a height of 1600 meters. However you can come across them here to human settlements. These snakes are mostly active at night and at twilight and live under rotting wood, stones and plants. If attacked, the snake is usually defensive and displays the typical defensive behaviour for an Oligodon (rolling up to the side and lifting up the tail). Should this snake happen to bite, it can lead to wounds with heavy bleeding as this species has very strong, curved back teeth.
Danger: none
Looks about right to me in compairing both pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
The pattern on it sure looks like a Kukri even if it wasn't really brown, more greyish and black.
What worried us a bit was that it didn't act like the 'normal' non-poisonous snakes around here, p... off like a greased lightning when coming close to them. This guy was slow moving and just parked on the steps to the front porch and had to be motivated by wifeys garden rake before leaving.
Also, the dogs didn't even try to bother it, normally they are quite good at scaring off snakes.
General rule which I've found helpful over the years is: rounded or oblong head - non-venomous; triangular shaped head - venomous. Kukris can give a wicked bite; your dogs may have had the experience previously. It also may have been sluggish from the morning's chill if it was early and the sun had just come up - might not have warmed up enough to get lively yet.
I don't think that it was cold as it was 9.45 in the morning and about +30C outside.
We got a bigger, fatter and lighter colored Kukri in the evening. This one was very aggressive and attacked the dogs.
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Fantastic pics mate. Thanks
Threads like this make me glad I live on the 19th floor
That blue eye colour suggest it's not what I suggested.
But the Misses, a country girl insists it's the same.
Yes, it's the same. nasty bite.
Tend to hang out in termite mounds and the like.
Nasty nip but taste good.
" Kill, roast on BBQ, make skin out, make scales (?) out, make same same tom yam gai, but with snake ."
God I love this country. :)
I like Singapore. See a snake. Call the police. Have them take it to the zoo.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
https://teakdoor.com/singapore-forum/...-sighting.html
Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
Missing out on all that gastronomic adventure. What are you missing?
However, I do take your point. :)
Wifey says that she prefer Ngo Singh (Rat Snake) in her Tom Yam.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
Quote:
Originally Posted by BosseO
JJ say "he don't give a shit."
Wifey eat what wifey like.
(Though she's currently sound asleep.)
JJ eat loin of pork and a baked potato. :)
Maybe with a bit of a tomato salad.
And a bit of a sauce.
I love this place. :)
I save my snake eating for business trips to Vietnam.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
Its funny because although all of us here live in a suburban jungle, we're still not too far away from the real jungle. There have been stories of snakes making their way up through to peoples toilets but I think we are safe this high up :)
snakes do not have blue eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
this snake is about to slough it's skin, hence the "blue"
colour. i don't know wtf kind of snake it is, just pleased that the op reacted by shooing it off instead of reacting by killing it for no reason (and here i include the thai reason that it might "taste nice"- they have enough chickens and insects and soidogs to sustain themselvesb),like many paranoid ignorant wankers would do.
See photo above. :chitown:Quote:
Originally Posted by tsicar
^^ You seem a tad cranky tonight tsicar.
Anything wrong?
perhaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
screwed my back up and been in pain for two weeks now.
the blue eyes are caused by the thickening and seperating of the skin that is about to be removed to enable the snake to grow.
snakes have no eyelids, and nor do they have a nictitating membrane like some lizards, so the scale over the eye thickens, gets a bluish tinge, and eventually becomes milky-white before the skin is shed, mostly in one piece.
during this time, they often become just as cranky and ill tempered as a tsicar with a fukt back!
cheers!
My sympathies.Quote:
Originally Posted by tsicar
Get well soon.
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Originally Posted by tsicar
Bloody good info. Thanks.
Can I mention my piles in this thread as well?
Does it have any thing to do with snakes. ----- shudder----------Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
no. i just thought this was turning into the invalid threadQuote:
Originally Posted by jandajoy
only if they have turned blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
can you post a pic for a more accurate diagnosis?
Go for your life.Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
nice pics :chitown::):):):):):):):)
just wait for the one of his blue piles!Quote:
Originally Posted by smeden
i can just see at least two members here.............
..........aagh forget it!
this is a good thread and shouldn't be relegated to mkp.
snakes are one of the most misunderstood creatures on this earth; one of the most beneficial to mankind too, especially in the very communities that they are indiscriminately exterminated.
i guess that the only reason the thai rice farmers survive is that:
in spite of the fact that the rural thais who produce the rice crop, destroy (kill and/or eat) the birds and snakes that normally keep the rodent and insect populatrion in check, which would be highly detrimental to them under "normal" conditions:
..they themselves are the greatest predators of the vermin that would normally destroy the crops, so i guess that snakes and birds have no real role to play in thailand anyway!
Quote:
Originally Posted by tsicar
Are you very very drunk?
Or just a bit?
As in enough?
As in totally pissed?
Good man.
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Originally Posted by jandajoy
about half pissed by now.
SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!
going out for a drink or two with my mates now, so i shouldn't embarrass myself too much here any more tonight!
i'll check back in the mornong to see what damage control i need to do.
g'night!
still like snakes, tho!....
tsicar, pissed or not, you don't have to worry about 'our' snakes. The only thing that we shoot them with has the label 'Nikon' on it.
The dogs never hurt a snake, just chasing them away and last night was the first time a snake decided to resist them telling it off.
The Golden Tree Snakes have a habit to sometimes visit us in the house but even then we carefully catch them and put them where they belong.
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golden tree snake
agresive and mildly venomous
Had one in the garden the other week
every snake here is 'poison kill you one hour', or simply 'cobra', therefore dead on sight.
I've been claring an area about 1500sqm, slash and burn and flushed a few out into the danger zone, where they have become lunch or dinner for the farmhands.
This one was 182cm
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If I had caught that Golden Tree Snake in my home, I would have, after taking my heart medication, taken it to my neighbor to BBQ. Hate snakes worse than Liberals.
[at] BosseO.
Nice pictures.
The golden tree snake must be quite common, I`ve seen them on many occasions.
Agressive? Not in the least IME anyway.
The ones I have encountered have seemed quite indifferent to human intrusion.
Beautiful snake.
The 3 below are just the ones I have captured a picture of.
Spotted at Koh Kood, Koh Ngai and Koh Chang, resp.
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Really not a danger to humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by good2bhappy
"f they feel threatened and cannot flee, they bite straight away. The species Chrysopelea belongs to the family of rearfanged snakes. However, the poison is so mild that it does not have much of an effect on humans. "
As their fangs are very much in the rear of their mouth it is difficult for them to even bite you.
If bitten the danger is more from the filthy mouth rather than any toxin.
Great to have around your house, eats jing jocks, lizards etc.
E. G.
^ A Burmese python.