-
Deadly Thailand Snakes
How to Identify Deadly Kraits in Thailand — Banded, Malayan, Red-Headed
Thailand has three krait species, and all of them are dangerously venomous. Kraits are responsible for a quietly disproportionate share…
Read More » -
Deadly Thailand Snakes
What Snake Kills You the Fastest? — The King Cobra Argument
Some snakes kill slowly. The Many-Banded Krait (Bungarus multicinctus) bite can take 30 hours to produce respiratory failure even untreated.…
Read More » -
Rear-Fanged Snakes
Jagor’s Water Snake — Field Notes from Lowland Pond Surveys
This is a working notebook of our field encounters with Jagor’s Water Snake. The full species profile lives on our…
Read More » -
Non-Venomous Snakes
Javan File Snake (Acrochordus javanicus) — The Wrinkly Aquatic Constrictor
The Javan File Snake looks like nothing else in Thai waters. Acrochordus javanicus is a heavy-bodied, fully aquatic, non-venomous constrictor…
Read More » -
Deadly Thailand Snakes
Shaw’s Sea Snake (Hydrophis curtus) — Common, Stout, Bycatch-Famous
Shaw’s Sea Snake is the true sea snake we run into most often in Thai waters. Hydrophis curtus (older literature:…
Read More »