did he look like this????Originally Posted by good2bhappy
I agree in my proffesional opinion...the 'standard' cobra generally doesn't get bigger than 2.5mtrs...You lucky bugger...I'd wanna keep it around as long as possible....as long as you ain't got kids, dogs or cats!!!!...that you wanna keep that is??Originally Posted by good2bhappy
King cobras do eat other snakes but strangley enough..prefer other cobras...not Kings...they also eat rats, if there are no snakes about....Originally Posted by Panda
Oh my god!!!!! Where does all this fear and paranoia come from...and hatred?????Originally Posted by Panda
This is a beautiful creature and you are very fortunate to see one.. A friend of mine rescued a 5mtr King in Samui. We had the pleasure of being able to film it in an enclosed space...even at five metres the poor devil just wanted to escape...and we weren't using 'rakes' or any other type of deadly instrument!!!!
Samui snake rescue...free service...24hrs a day...a guy called Phil... Superb.
A firearm!!!!! WTF...... just leave it alone, It has no interest in us what so ever...we are not a food source...and never will be...there is a program coming to National Geo' soon I suggest some of the TD'ers watch it....Originally Posted by robuzo
As far a I can tell...HUMANS not ANIMALS are much more of a threat....as is blatently clear from some of the opinions on this and other posts...I go out of my way to see 'NATURE' that's why I'm here!!!!!
Maybe the UK would be a better place for some of the posters...there's feck all nature left there!!!!
and survive to tell the taleOriginally Posted by Mr R Sole
Is that so?Originally Posted by robuzo
Probably an Indo Rat snake. If you could discern black stripes on a Cinnamon background that is what it was. Fast as all flock... I mean really really fast. Lives on rats and small animals and birds. Good to have around and fun to watch them go when they are on the run.
E. G.
"If you can't stand the answer --
Don't ask the question!"
I completely agree with you Sole, I do not want to harm any snakes and think they are beautiful creatures, but whether it was one kind or other I am just not comfortable with having one that big living in my garden, unlike other posters here, like Aussies) I am not used to snakes where I come from, having said that the two Thais in the house at the time was far more disturbed by this snakes presence than I was.
WTF, Mr. Sole, did you read the rest of what I wrote? "Shame to have to kill him, and again only do so if he seems to be hanging around (they are territorial)." I'm a huge reptile fan, snakes especially, but you can't have a cobra around the house, especially if there are kids and/or dogs.
By the way, the some of the rat snakes really can easily be confused with a King C, especially the keeled rat snake. As I mentioned, some of the rat snakes will rear up and flatten out, but in more of a sideways fashion than the cobras. Some members of the keelback snake family mimic the cobra hood and stance almost perfectly, although they are also perfectly harmless.
“You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” Dorothy Parker
When Larvidchr has a camera in his hand he turns into Superman with absolutely no fear.Originally Posted by phuketbound
You should see him when he goes on a Thai Knicker thread photo safari!
He takes no prisoners!
Men!
I really fear snakes, but I've run into a poisonous one on my camp when I lived in the woods of NCarolina. I was working with delinquent teenagers in an outdoor rehab program, and I was told if I see a snake, to cut his head off. Well saw a copperhead snake, but didn't have time to chop its head off. One of the girls already had the shovel and did the deed, while I stood in horror and awe.
We might be the only life form that kills just for the sake of killing.
^Thanks
Cobra vs Rat Snake
Just for next time.
Well I don't know, I think with my very limited knowledge about snakes the best option is to be very careful with them all and stay at a guaranteed safe distance, this one moved very casually and docile like though even when I was stressing it with the plastic pellets.
scale markings on the head are distinctive
A work camp I was on many years ago in Ar Ar - Saudi was infested with what they called ratsnakes - looked similar to the one on that YouTube clip- place was a cold store and was infested with rats as well !
Phillipino workers used to trap them and eat them !! ( rats and snakes!)
I stayed with my 'beef bacon"or "turkey ham" sandwiches thankyou !!!
The Cobra is a bit of a pussy really. Although he can move very quickly, about 80kph, he is no match for the world's deadliest snake the Inland Tiapan or Fierce Snake of Australia. This fella is 750 times more venomous than the Cobra. The cobra doesn't even rate in the top 10 deadly snakes.
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Surely better to try and coax it out of your garden..as for territorial..usually only because there is a food source..Originally Posted by robuzo
Copperhead racers also try to mimic the cobra...and puff out their necks..there are also mock vipers over here...tricky little buggers some of these guys..
Best advice leave well alone..get a reptile book..learn about the amazing nature we're so lucky to have here...(before the thai's kill em' all, and encourage us to do the same)
Something like 95% of all snake species in Thailand are non-venomous at least to us...something to think about....
Mass hissssss-teria (pardon the pun) why should that snake have been killed weren't your 'deliquents' (correct word used) in the snakes environment...and aren't we????????Originally Posted by phuketbound
Just because we can....what a lovely species we are...how superior...right on Rural..Originally Posted by Rural Surin
I hate to kill any creature but when you have children running around with some venomous snakes in the area you have to remove them unfortunately.
The last snake (rat snake) I found was in the pool and I managed to get her (she was pregnant) over the fence and into the Klong so hopefully she won't come back.
The number of dogs that have been killed by cobra's in my area is high but since they have cleared most of the land for the motor way the cobras have disappeared as well.
Lovely creatures and it is a shame if they all have been killed off.
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