Snakes in the house and garden
Re: Snakes in the house and garden
Thank you Joelle.
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Man in pub circa 1987.
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Re: Snakes in the house and garden
Came across this rare beauty in a seldom-used toilet block at a waterfall up near the Burmese border. Its a Python brongersmai or Brongersma’s Blood Python or Short-tailed Python. Shots are not great and it had moved on when I returned a couple of hours later to get some more.
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Re: Snakes in the house and garden
Nice!! What sort of size was it?
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Re: Snakes in the house and garden
About 1.25 meters I'd say, not long but a very thick body, maybe it had just eaten.
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Re: Snakes in the house and garden
Two snakes sighted in our garden today, one this morning and again this evening. My nephew said the one that was killed this morning was a งูกะบะ which I think means a pit viper. About 70cm long and moved away when light shone on it. Brownish in colour with ringed circles along its length. This evenings sighting was near the wall where there are a lot of jingjocks do hunting I suspect. I thought that pit vipers were unusual here and wonder if it is another type of snake. I got an unclear photo so cannot help in that way for identification.
Re: Snakes in the house and garden
A pit viper tends to have triangles on its body and a very triangular head. What you describe sounds more like a banded kukri. Although they are not venomous, they can give a nasty bite. It would be unusual for it to attack. They would normally just move away as you describe.
Pit vipers tend to stay put, coiled up, and ready to strike - they don't usually move away.
Many Thais (my wife included) mistake the kukri for a pit viper.
Pit vipers tend to stay put, coiled up, and ready to strike - they don't usually move away.
Many Thais (my wife included) mistake the kukri for a pit viper.
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Re: Snakes in the house and garden
Thanks Big Boy, I suspect that is what it is. The Thai family tend to view any snake as lethal even the golden tree snake. If it moves away I prefer to let it do so and get on with its life.
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Yes, a big problem in Thailand. I was heavily influenced by my wife in my early years here, but I simply educated myself. I still respect all snakes, just in case I'm wrong, but love to see them.
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Bloody hot now in Australia, but snake keeps cool!
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Snake spotted dangling from fridge after Adelaide Hills resident heard hissing near air compressor
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-13/ ... /103316582
It's enough to send a chill down anyone's spine — a snake dangling from a fridge door, wrapped around the ice dispenser.
But that's the sight that recently confronted eastern Adelaide Hills resident Gail Auricht in the outdoor entertainment area of her family property outside Callington.
When she went to turn the radio off on Thursday evening, she heard a hissing noise, and assumed it was the air compressor.
When she heard the sound again, she was startled to see a red-bellied black snake on the front of her fridge.
"It had gone onto the water and ice outlet," Ms Auricht said.
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Snake spotted dangling from fridge after Adelaide Hills resident heard hissing near air compressor
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-13/ ... /103316582
It's enough to send a chill down anyone's spine — a snake dangling from a fridge door, wrapped around the ice dispenser.
But that's the sight that recently confronted eastern Adelaide Hills resident Gail Auricht in the outdoor entertainment area of her family property outside Callington.
When she went to turn the radio off on Thursday evening, she heard a hissing noise, and assumed it was the air compressor.
When she heard the sound again, she was startled to see a red-bellied black snake on the front of her fridge.
"It had gone onto the water and ice outlet," Ms Auricht said.
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