Life in the country or anywhere in Thailand for that matter, may just bring you into contact with my best friend (LOL) snakes. The first encounter i had was my mail box, having had to break the lock due to a missing key this little critter had crawled in for some shade, a big presumption, but he certainly wasn't looking to take the bills and pay them for me! Some deep down instinct had fortunately made me look inside rather than just insert my hand and extract the mail as usual. This was fortunate as his head was pointing directly at me and with the absence of mail, including bills, he would have had a clean strike. After researching the Internet and asking a few friends i discovered that the specimen was a Popes Pit Viper,it has a nasty bite and a deadly effect if not treated. Now if it had got a bite at me, for once in my life i would have cursed the absence of bills in the mail box, at least i would have had some cover from him....
There is a snake with a very similar marking of black with a green / yellow stripe but a flat head as opposed to the triangular viper head, this is a Golden tree snake and as much as it is venomous it is not high in toxicity and has rear fangs making it difficult to envenomate a human being. I have also been fortunate enough to view a python of about 8ft long and 12 inches in circumference crossing the road to my house, beautiful with browns and oranges in it's markings it completely spanned the road so i had to wait for it to cross.
There is a snake with a very similar marking of black with a green / yellow stripe but a flat head as opposed to the triangular viper head, this is a Golden tree snake and as much as it is venomous it is not high in toxicity and has rear fangs making it difficult to envenomate a human being. I have also been fortunate enough to view a python of about 8ft long and 12 inches in circumference crossing the road to my house, beautiful with browns and oranges in it's markings it completely spanned the road so i had to wait for it to cross.
There is a snake farm in Mae Rim, and here you can view many specimins from Thailand and Asia as well as the show, have a Python around your neck, and stroke a Cobra, here they also milk the venom to be used in the production of anti venom, so even for those with an aversion to captive animals extremely useful.
My simple rule about snakes, no matter how beautiful, they can all be dangerous so leave them alone and view from afar.
I won't mention where i saw a Cobra but it was central and i S**t myself, but as a rule uless you threaten them they are not interested in humans, clever beasts really.
I won't mention where i saw a Cobra but it was central and i S**t myself, but as a rule uless you threaten them they are not interested in humans, clever beasts really.
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