Front-Fanged Snakes
Front-fanged Thailand snakes — the cobras, kraits, coral snakes and sea snakes whose erect, fixed front fangs deliver fast-acting venom.
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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…
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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.…
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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:…
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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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Wirot’s Palm Viper (Trimeresurus wiroti) — Southern Thailand’s Forgotten Pit Viper
Wirot’s Palm Viper is one of those species nobody outside herpetology had heard of until the 2000s. Trimeresurus wiroti was…
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