Thread: This is a Snake.

^ But saying that, I once had a cobra make a lunge for the front tyre of my motorcycle. Better the tyre than my shin, mind.

You've all seen this, I'm sure:

Why the instinctive dislike for the deadly serpents?
Our only reaction is extermination.
Rather typical.

They want less to do with us as we do with them.
Let them be......unless, they're on the menu for the evening.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Originally Posted by robuzo

By the way, that doesn't look close to five meters.

Does to me, maybe even longer.

Could have gone and stood beside it to give an idea of scale!

Stand on its tail to stop it from running away while you get a few good shots!

Just like a true Aussie, Steve Irwin.

^

Lets just call it as a Big fookin snake EH.

The other pic showing it trying to climb the embankment opposite is interesting.

It's Back in Perth, I'll dig it out on my trip back.

Nit pickers the world over...that's not...FFS...

My wife saw a cobra as thick as her arm on the property but it escaped next door.

She said it looked very fat and was possibly pregnant.

Well I have been killing baby cobras, 5 in all over the past week and have yet to see the mum and more importantly the father.

In fact one of the local cats was eating one when I arrived home last night so there must be more around.

Does anyone know how many babies Cobra's have?

How many babies does a king cobra have

More facts here: Cobras: All You Need To Know ? Cobras.org

Thanks mate. I doubt that our snake is a King Cobra but if the normal Thai Cobra has 20-60 eggs there are at least another 10 babies out there.

Would be a nice surprise if the fooker reared his head when your pants were around your ankles squeezing one out...

I should post up the Original picture of my King Cobra.

I cut the Image down so as to give a better view of the snake.

The uncut version shows the snake from further out and also shows the tracks of the D9 dozer which gives a scale as which to size the snake.

Originally Posted by DualSport88

Wow! That is a big snake.... Hope I don't run into one of those out riding.

Don't worry. Cobras can't ride bikes so it isn't going to happen.

My sleepy boner can travel

Originally Posted by Dillinger

My sleepy boner can travel

Not even in your wildest dreams is it as big as Tel's snake, though

Originally Posted by terry57

I was reading a story today about a Pom Vet who is living on Samui, been there 15 years and specializes in Snake capture and rehabilitation. Received a call to a snake hold up in an out side shitter. He fronts up, does the business and captures it. 4 Meter King Cobra. Reported with pictures in yesterday's Thai-Visa mail out. He will release it back into the Jungle. There are big snakes are out there on these Islands.

Good mate of mine from back in Pomland.

He's been offering the free rescue service for ages - loves his snakes, the mad bastard.


Have you got a link? - i saw it on the news yesterday.

Yes, please if you have a link, would be most grateful, sir.

Just lifted this off his facebook page.




MAD

British vet rescues cobra on Koh Samui - Samui Times

Originally Posted by robuzo

Check out Mr. Brook's comment under the article.

He makes a good point.

Get bitten by a " King Cobra " and one counts down his life in minutes.

Fookin nuts these Snake guys.

King cobras are well-known "dry biters"- they are smarter than most snakes, and have to be well pissed-off before they'll envenomate- unlike, say, a Russell's viper or a spitting cobra. I was told that by Bill Haast, who was famous for surviving snake bites, including a krait bite and a mamba bite. He lived to be 100.