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Rear-Fanged Snakes
Many-Spotted Cat Snake (Boiga multomaculata) — Mildly Venomous, Strikingly Patterned
The Many-Spotted Cat Snake is one of those quiet small-to-medium snakes that lives almost everywhere in Thailand without anyone noticing.…
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Black-Headed Cat Snake (Boiga nigriceps) — Southern Thailand’s Striking Red Tree Snake
The Black-Headed Cat Snake is the strikingly coloured red-and-black tree snake of southern Thailand’s lowland forest. Boiga nigriceps stands out…
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Deadly Thailand Snakes
Rhabdophis subminiatus — The Snake Whose Bite Can Kill You Days Later
This is the snake whose bite many people misjudge — including doctors, sometimes. Rhabdophis subminiatus is small, slender, and at…
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Rear-Fanged Snakes
Checkered Keelback (Fowlea piscator) — Mildly Venomous, Rarely Dangerous
If we had to pick the snake we run into most often around Thai rice paddies, drainage canals and slow-moving…
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Rear-Fanged Snakes
Plumbeous Water Snake (Hypsiscopus plumbea) — Tiny, Mild-Venom Rice-Paddy Snake
The Plumbeous Water Snake is the small, dark, easily-missed water snake we pull up in dip nets in flooded rice…
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