My Snake Thread with Pics

[SEA Traveler]

Here is a Rat snake all pissed off.They type of fan their neck (if they have such a thing)vertically.This was before it chased me....

https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...475/snake2.jpg

not a very pretty sight is it?

[Little Chuchok]

^You are 100% correct.That thing went after me and then chased the wife....I did trip her up though...

[SEA Traveler]

^You are 100% correct.That thing went after me and then chased the wife....I did trip her up though...

like when the bear is chasing you and friends.... you only gotta be able to run faster than the guy behind you. 555!

[SEA Traveler]

Was out bicycling last Saturday with my Saturday morning riding group on the back country sois South of Sukhumvit down MapTaPut way.









We saw this snake crossing our path on a back country soi.














Looked on a web site identifying Snakes of Thailand but the only one I was unable to locate that even remotely resembled the one that we saw and is shown in my photo here was the “copper headed racer” or maybe even Malayan Pit Viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma), Thai: ThaiSnakeName-57 (ngu gap pha), Length: Up to 100 cm, Occurrence: Resident in the whole of Thailand and is often found under dry leaves, stones or old wood, Behaviour: Predominantly nocturnal especially when it is drizzling, but also active during the day. It bites, is an aggressive snake and advances very quickly. The neighbor suggested that it was a Malayan Pit Viper.


Anyone have ideas on this?

[aging one]

I hate snakes. The first time we were leaving for the states we were getting the suitcases out getting ready for the taxi and the maid comes a screaming. "Ngu"!!! Sure enough it was about a meter long young cobra. Quick phone calls were made, and believe it or not snake catchers arrived in less than half an hour. They got him, it was a young cobra.

Scared the shit out of me. Because once they started rounding it up it was all over the driveway, our luggage then into the lawn. Never seen one since around our house. We see water snakes all the time in the klong. They and the monitor lizard are gone now. Not from the floods but the subsequent 6 months of no rain, and the klong going dry.

I hate snakes.

So that one would have been poisonous as well?

[SEA Traveler]

I hate snakes. The first time we were leaving for the states we were getting the suitcases out getting ready for the taxi and the maid comes a screaming. "Ngu"!!! Sure enough it was about a meter long young cobra. Quick phone calls were made, and believe it or not snake catchers arrived in less than half an hour. They got him, it was a young cobra.

Scared the shit out of me. Because once they started rounding it up it was all over the driveway, our luggage then into the lawn. Never seen one since around our house. We see water snakes all the time in the klong. They and the monitor lizard are gone now. Not from the floods but the subsequent 6 months of no rain, and the klong going dry.

I hate snakes.

I don't much care for snakes either....

Beware, where there is a youngin snake, there is sure enough some parents hanging around.

[aging one]

You ought to know bro, I have heard the stories from your mouth. I guess growing up in a closed compound in the desert with no snakes at all sort of started the hate. Then I discovered the California rattlesnake. But thats another shitty story. I hate snakes.

But I like the thread, and I even know people who keep them as pets.

[Norton]

Here he is you wussies.

Keeled Rat Snake. The one on the road a juvenile. Will darken as he matures.

Nice pets these be.

Non Poisonous but like to bite wussies.

[aging one]

^ in this case that might be me. I have had my fill of snakes. Glad to hear from a Ban Nok expert!!

[SEA Traveler]

OK, I'll buy into the Keeled Rat Snake concept but I'm still not getting any closer than what I was when taking the photo. Call me a Wussie, but I'll be a live wussie. :-)

[nedwalk]

i know this is off topic..but as i read it..all i can hear in the far off recesses of memmory is TFP, shreiking...at a poor bloody spider..sorry freshy , but mate that memmory just lingers

[navydoubs1977]

410? Wow, I learned how to hunt with a 410 bolt action shotgun 50 years ago. Held 3 shells. I still have the shotgut but it is in the States.

First gun i ever had was on old bolt action single shot 410. Used to twist the end of the bolt to put on the saftey. Think my dad still has it. Was grandads and not registered in anyway. Barrel was all pitted and in a right state. Not like modern shotguns though, it had a barrel with walls about 5mm thick, awesome thing as kids it got dropped, kicked, thrown, the lot, then still fired just fine!

I will try and get a pic!

Dad says its a Webley & Scott?

[SEA Traveler]

410? Wow, I learned how to hunt with a 410 bolt action shotgun 50 years ago. Held 3 shells. I still have the shotgut but it is in the States.

First gun i ever had was on old bolt action single shot 410. Used to twist the end of the bolt to put on the saftey. Think my dad still has it. Was grandads and not registered in anyway. Barrel was all pitted and in a right state. Not like modern shotguns though, it had a barrel with walls about 5mm thick, awesome thing as kids it got dropped, kicked, thrown, the lot, then still fired just fine!

I will try and get a pic!

Dad says its a Webley & Scott?

My first hunting shotgun was a 410 also. It is sitting back with the daughter and SIL in the states in the gun cabinet while I'm gone.....

[Stumpy]

I Love snakes. Awesome predators. Stealthy. They are really no threat to any human unless approached. Just let them pass and they will be on their way. I came across a few cobras down in Cha Am while riding my bike. One was a big guy, probably meter and a half. He was sunning on the side of a soi. I rode right buy him and he only flinched a bit.

Now the monitor lizards are really something else. Ran across a few HUGE ones fishing. 2 meters long and they have no fear of us at all. In fact we are "low hanging fruit" for them.

[Satonic]

I Love snakes. Awesome predators. Stealthy. They are really no threat to any human unless approached. Just let them pass and they will be on their way. I came across a few cobras down in Cha Am while riding my bike. One was a big guy, probably meter and a half. He was sunning on the side of a soi. I rode right buy him and he only flinched a bit.

Now the monitor lizards are really something else. Ran across a few HUGE ones fishing. 2 meters long and they have no fear of us at all. In fact we are "low hanging fruit" for them.

I share your love for reptiles. I have owned snakes most of my life (My mum was allergic to pet hair so would never allow me a dog. So I grew up with snakes/lizards).

I live in BKK and my house is 10 meters away from a large lake and a small klong. I see the monitor lizards at least a couple of times per week. They can get up to 3 metres in length!

Right now I am building a vivarium for a Jackson's Chameleon that I'm adopting in a couple of weeks time.

I hate to see guys kill snakes... Happens far too often here. They are more scared of us than we are of them and generally speaking unless provoked would run (slither?) rather than attack.

[Stumpy]

I live in BKK and my house is 10 meters away from a large lake and a small klong. I see the monitor lizards at least a couple of times per week. They can get up to 3 metres in length!

Ohh Yeah, I was fishing a klong over in Rangsit a few years back and I saw a little ripple in the water as it headed up the Klong. It saw me and veered right., Came out of the water and actually chased me along the road for a spell. It was easily a 2meter 75kg deal. Its tongue was a good 1/2 a meter long and was extremely fast. I snapped some pictures. I will post if I can find. Most people do not believe these monsters are right in the city.

[palexxxx]

I saw a snake crossing the road in my moo ban yesterday. I later identified it as a Golden Tree Snake, it was about two and a half feet long and only about the thickness of a finger. Is that their usual size?

[SEA Traveler]

I saw a snake crossing the road in my moo ban yesterday. I later identified it as a Golden Tree Snake, it was about two and a half feet long and only about the thickness of a finger. Is that their usual size?

I'd say it isn't unusual at all to see a golden or green tree as long and the size you mentioned.

[nidhogg]

They are more scared of us than we are of them

........nah. Trust me on that.

[somtamslap]

Another cobra was spotted by granny's gaff a few days ago. I was called to show off my snake slaying skills again but decided to send the mrs in instead -I have developed an acute phobia of anything that slithers since battling with that big bastard a few years back - a real, genuine phobia.

[DrAndy]

^ not a phobia, more a fear

your fear seems quite rational, based on previous experience

but snakes do tend to avoid humans where possible

the times when someone is actually "bitten" by a snake usually happen when the human inadvertently disturbs a resting snake

[PlanK]

the human inadvertently disturbs a resting snake

It's the snake's fault for not being neon pink with glow-in-the dark spots, and an accompanying marching band, and a PR agent to ensure it's promotional needs are adequately advertised.

If they insist on wearing camouflage and slithering about at ground level where nobody can see them, then they've only got themselves to blame for a bad rep.

[charleyboy]

Here's a golden tree snake on my gate.

[charleyboy]

The same one in the hedge.

[Gravesend Dave]

Good Thread.
That rat snake you in your first photos,looked blooded in the photos before you show it dead,bit of trouble getting the job done!