Here are some snake photos I’ve taken over the years in Thailand. If you want to add yours – send them and tell me your full name for the copyright notice.
Put your cursor over the image to read the name of the snake. Click the image to enlarge – use BACK button to go back to list.
Red Necked Keelbacks are now considered quite dangerous and potentially deadly.
Oriental Whip Snake – not dangerous. Come in brown too.
Keeled Rat Snake – Ptyas carinatus – in front of blood python.
Green Pit Viper – copyright Jeremy ________ (will add name here shortly)
Red Tailed Racers – one of the favorite foods for king cobras.
Paradise Tree Snake eating gecko. Copyright David Joseph.
Rat Snake bites a king cobra.
Juvenile Red Necked Keelback. Dangerous, potentially deadly, venomous, and poisonous.
Banded Krait – Bungarus fasciatus – deadly, active at night.
Juvenile Monocled Cobra – quite deadly when small too.
Ridley’s Racer – rat snake, common in caves catching bats out of the air.
Red Necked keelback – do not keep as a pet – can cause serious kidney damage.
Mangrove Pit Viper found in Krabi mangroves.
Copperheaded Racer – rat snake. Not dangerous.
Juvenile striped bronzeback snake.
Malayan Bridle Snakes look just like Malayan Kraits – and yet, not dangerous.
Copperheaded Racers and Indo-Chinese Rat Snakes – harmless.
Nothing more awesome than a big king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Monocled Cobra bite (Naja kaouthia) this was about 4th time bitten.
Bronzeback snake.
Beautiful Viper or Brown Spotted Green Viper.
Luke Yeomans sent this with an email as we corresponded. A baby king cobra.
Brown Whip Snake – very uncommon in Thailand.
A very fast King Cobra – we have a video about this one. Wow.
Dangerous and potentially deadly, this small snake looks harmless enough. The Small-spotted Coral Snake (Calliophis maculiceps).
Checkered Keelback – Xenochrophis piscator (ID not 100%)
Angry King Cobras strike with mouth open.
Indo Malayan Mountain Pit Viper – a small boy was kicking this when his father saw him.
Girl holding a red tailed racer (rat snake) – harmless.
Speckled Coral Snake – Venomous, probably deadly, but the mouth is too small to bite humans easily.
A bitey puff-faced watersnake (Homalopsis buccata).
Malayan Krait – deadly.
Jackie hand-holding Monocled Cobra
Reticulated Pythons – biggest Thailand snake. Constrictors, no venom.
Red Tailed racers can often be hand-held without biting.
Puff Faced Water Snake – Homalopsis buccata. Usually don’t bite – this one struck a lot.
Golden Tree Snake
Malayan Pit Viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma)
Another Mangrove Pit Viper – color variation is wide. Copyright Carlton.
Wagler’s Pit Viper Copyright – Emilios Kattides
Small Malalan Pit Viper in water bottle.
Golden Tree Snake – aka Flying Snake. Not dangerous. Quite fast in trees.
Malayan Pit Viper – reddish / Pink. Very dangerous and deadly. Calloselasma rhodostoma.
Red Tailed Racers have blue and black tongues.
Red Tailed Pipe Snake – harmless, great snake to introduce to kids.
