Thread: Snakes alive! What was it?

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anyone know what this snake is?
locals said it was a nasty poisonous one.

Harmless Sunbeam snake

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you sure?
no need to have hacked the poor thing into 6 pieces then.

If it's got a shovel head for burrowing it is.

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makes sense.
I do wonder what Thais know about snakes.
seem to think think they are all dangerous.

Nothing wrong with that, i haven't seen enough of them to have a clue and treat them all as possible killers.

I've never ever heard of a Thai saying that a snake wasn't anything but deadly.

This is a good site with pictures and info on the not many poisonous snakes and the rather more non poisonous ones.

Poisonous animals

here's a sunbeam snake.



Xenopeltis unicolor (Sunbeam Snake)
Thai: Ngoo Säng Atit

Length: The male measures up to 92 cm, the female up to 114 cm.

Occurrence: Can be met in the whole of Thailand.

Behaviour/habitat:
The snake is active at twilight and is nocturnally active. During the day, they like to hide themselves under rotting leaves and in compost and rubbish heaps. They eat frogs, lizards, other snakes and small rodents. They snake their tail is a warning if aggravated but do not generally bite.

Danger: A harmless non-poisonous snake

Not look like that.

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I know.
I've looked through all the pics of snake types in and around the Chiangmai area and haven't found one that looks like that.

seems you chopped the rarest snake in thailand into a million pieces.


On a more sobering note, one of the deadliest craits in Thailand lives is common in the Doi Sakhet and San Kampeng areas.
They can kill and often do.

Bad news.

I'm redding you for killing it, Scoot. If it's a nocturnal creature, it will be extremely docile in the day, and you'll have to prod it alot to get it moving. Else, get the tel # for the nearest snake farm so in the future, they can rescue it. If you were a real man, you get a PVC pipe with a loop at the end, snag it, put it in a rice bag and take it out to the jungle to release it.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

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I know.
I've looked through all the pics of snake types in and around the Chiangmai area and haven't found one that looks like that.

seems you chopped the rarest snake in thailand into a million pieces.


On a more sobering note, one of the deadliest craits in Thailand lives is common in the Doi Sakhet and San Kampeng areas.
They can kill and often do.

Bad news.

That's KRAIT.....Found one on my kitchen a few months ago..dead.Cat had already sorted it.

Looks like a cobra.

balderdash. that ain't a krait in Scoot's photo. And hard to tell exactly without the the head and fangs.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

balderdash. that ain't a krait in Scoot's photo.

no one said it was Jet.

Yeah Jet....

Oh, I incorrectly referred to your reference on deadly kraits, CMN. Bite me now, asp of the Chaophraya.

Originally Posted by Scooter

Went to cut the lawn yesterday afternoon and saw this in the grass.I went to pick it up as I thought it was a stick

Not a good title for the thead really scoot
more like snake chopped to death by a shovel
Bit of panic shovel chopping i detect there bet the neighbours loved the farang going nuts in the garden
poor snake

Originally Posted by sabang

Where you near water, such as paddies or a stream?

Lots of water around near us.

OK you lot.
I had the wife jumping up and down shouting Kill it Kill it!

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that one looks like the most likely one yet.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

I do wonder what Thais know about snakes. seem to think think they are all dangerous.

The reason the neighbour said it was dangerous was because it didn't move much when I prodded it. Therefore it doesn't have to run away because it can defend its self!
Not against a spade it isn't.