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Deadly Thailand Snakes
Snakebite Treatment Failures — Why Some Bites Get Mishandled in Thai Hospitals
Species misidentification. A patient arrives with no photograph; the clinician guesses based on bite-site appearance and presenting symptoms; the guess…
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Non-Venomous Snakes
Keeled Slug Snake (Pareas carinatus) — The Snake That Eats Snails
The Keeled Slug Snake is one of the most genuinely strange snakes in Thailand. Pareas carinatus belongs to a small…
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Deadly Thailand Snakes
Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina) — Banded, Beachable, Beautifully Calm
The Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait is the banded blue-and-white snake that sometimes shows up on Thai beaches and divers see resting…
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Vipers
Pope’s Bamboo Pit Viper — Highland Form and Subspecies of Trimeresurus popeiorum
The taxonomy around Trimeresurus popeiorum has been argued over for nearly a century. The “Pope’s Bamboo Pit Viper” name has…
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Vipers
Pope’s Pit Viper (Trimeresurus popeiorum) — Northern Thailand’s Highland Green Viper
Pope’s Pit Viper is the green pit viper most people meet on a hike through the cool, misty hill forests…
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