8/4/2023 0 Comments Constrictor snakes in englandWhat would a clever man do to identify it. I have a pretty good memory of what it looked like. Instead of just killing it I perhaps stupidly thought “must get a picture so can check if it’s dangerous” Had to go and tie the dog up first came back with iPad and couldn’t find it. Very skinny snake was a metre or more long. Hi was just taking the dog for a wander round the garden (south of CM) and he suddenly jumped back. I just posted on Thaivisa than found yr site. Keep up the good site, it must take a lot of your time keeping it updated, but worth it. I fight with my wife all the time as she tries to kill them and I have to stop her, although I must say, I am getting a bit tired of how frequently they appear. Not long ago a python was climbing our tree outside, it was about 4, 5 feet and not very thick, about twice a thumb thickness. The one eating the frog was only about 1 foot long. We had a constrictor outside our kitchen, behind a rubbish bin that was eating a frog and looked a bit like the 1 metre snake with the diamond back, but was much smaller. That was in our garden, it’s now under some wood in the garden and me, my wife, the maid and the kids are a bit scared to go near it as it was fast. We have in the last few weeks seen a fairly big, 1 metre, green diamond backed snake that our dog saw off. We have found a clutch of about 40, hand sized eggs that the neighbor sent to the local vet. When I say some, I mean one very, very big python, which I made a short video of and it looks like it has a dog or something similar inside it, making its slow way into the undergrowth outside. We have some snakes living in and around our garden. It’s an excellent read, and ALL SNAKE HOBBYISTS SHOULD READ IT. Joe Slowinski – biologist bitten by a many-banded krait in Burma in 2001 – you really should. If you haven’t yet read this book about Dr. This is an incredibly beautiful snake with green hues, blue-green eyes, and black and blue tongue. It does bite, of course, so stay out of reach. It has no fangs to deliver venom, and can be considered harmless for humans. This is a fairly large rat snake reaching around 2.1 meters in length. Red-tailed Racer ( Gonyosoma oxycephalum) Order HERE – JUST $2.99 Today (eBook)įound often in southern Thailand – the Red Tailed Racer, Gonyosoma oxycephalum. More than 34 stories of venomous snakebites and very near misses from Southeast Asia’s most deadly snakes – King Cobra, Malayan Pit Viper, Monocled Cobra, Banded Krait, Malayan Krait, and more! Digital Book with over 100 pages of interesting reading. Viper bites, coral bites, many VERY close calls. There is a photo of the monocled cobra below.Ī black mamba bite. Cobras are quick to bite and one of the most deadly daylight snakes you’ll encounter. Do be very cautious of any snake that is solid brown, grey, black, or that is mostly dark with some white spots – speckles or odd patterns. One rat snake, the Indo-Chinese Rat Snake, is especially common, but the adult does look very much like the monocled cobras to the untrained eye. When adult these snakes are either brown, grey (silver), or black. Indo-Chinese rat snake (Ptyas korros) juvenile. The Green Cat Snake shown in the photo is harmless, and didn’t even try to bite as I interacted with it on my porch in Southern Thailand around midnight. Green vipers typically have brown-colored tails. Be very careful with any green snake as there are many vipers with strong venom that are green and look very similar to this one. This green snake is almost 2 meters long when fully grown, and resembles the vipers – except it’s too long to be a viper. Eat geckos, birds, bird eggs at night when they are active. Harmless and somewhat common in some areas.
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