Frog Sex Gets Animalistic on Back Porch
May 30, 2009 by Vern · 4 Comments
Ok, there’s vanilla frogsex and there’s that which approaches the boundaries of extreme… this is somewhere in between. If you picture a female human being panting like this frog was – it would be banned from YouTube, I’m sure of that…
Anyway, here’s the video – stick it out until the end where the action is…
Vern Slapped Down by Snake Expert…
May 22, 2009 by Vern · 7 Comments
If you didn’t see my last post – here it is:
I was a little bit stumped by the snake I found last night on the porch but I gave it a shot -and was completely wrong as to which one it is…
I thought it was Hagen’s viper. The pics are close enough. The coloring is very similar… the head wasn’t as long as the Hagen’s viper on my snake. Nor was the snake aggressive at all – no strikes in 30 minutes of working with it… Nor did the size make sense. The snake I was looking at was 1.5 meters plus. The Hagen’s viper doesn’t get over somewhere around 116cm.
Snake expert, Joachim Bulian, an expert from Germany residing in Thailand slapped me down with his assessment…
“That is not a Pitviper. That is a green cat snake. Boiga cyanea!”
So, if you don’t mind, I’d like to change my guess to what he said. He had a photo of the green cat snake – and I’ve seen it on his site before but didn’t see it recently when I was looking up my snake… yep, this is exactly the snake I saw…
Boiga cyanea, a green cat snake. Photo: Joachim Bulian. www.Siam-Info.de
Thailand’s Snakes in the Dark
May 22, 2009 by Vern · 3 Comments
Last night I went out about midnight on the porch to secure the motorbikes together with some steel cables and big padlock like I do every night.
Something was strange looking on one of the motorbike seats and it too me a second to realize as it started to move – it was an almost 2 meter long green snake!
Well, I love snakes so I immediately asked my wife to bring me the digital camera so I could take some video and photos. Why didn’t I get it myself? I learned something. NEVER take my eyes off the snake – no matter what. I’ve lost a couple that way.
The video was much too dark but I got about 80 photos as I tried to coax it into the neighboring jungle area and away from our group of houses.
The head of this snake is triangular – signaling poisonous, but small. I think the head of a pit viper is usually larger. Either way, I didn’t do anything too crazy, but I had to lift him up with my stick and play with him a bit. He was really slow moving and deliberate… didn’t strike once no matter how I moved him around with my stick.
At one point he climbed up the wall into the window of my neighbor – who wasn’t home yet. She’d have flipped out, I know.
The snake expert, Joachim Bulian, said on his snake site it’s particularly hard to ID the green vipers in Thailand. Well, here’s what he said…
Note:
A normal person cannot tell the difference between the green Pit Vipers. The following Pit Vipers, present in Thailand, have a green colour:
* Cryptelytrops (Trimeresurus) albolabris (White-lipped Pit Viper)
* Viridovipera (Trimeresurus) gumprechti (Gumprecht’s Pit Viper)
* Parias (Trimeresurus) hageni Hagen’s Pit Viper
* Cryptelytrops (Trimeresurus) macrops (Large-eyed Pit Viper)
* Popeia (Trimeresurus) popeiorum popeiorum (Popes Pit Viper)
* Popeia (Trimeresurus) fucatus *in the works from MALHOTRA & THORPE (2004) not yet entered
* MALHOTRA & THORPE follows, entered here under the name Popeia
* Parias (Trimeresurus) sumatranus (Sumatra Pit Viper)
* Viridovipera (Trimeresurus) vogeli (Bird Pit Viper)
I’d say from the photos and description on his site that mine is a:
Trimeresurus hageni
Thai:ThaiSnakeName-95 (ngu kiau hang mai)
But, supposedly it only grows to 116 cm – this one was definitely longer – over a meter and a half.
Here’s a photo that closely matches my snake… the belly was that same color of yellow. The head and eye looks just like it…
Any other guesses?
Oops – update: Snake expert, Joachim Bulian zapped me an email… this is a Boiga cyanea – a Green Cat Snake! They have poison, but are rear-fanged and due to their docile nature are pretty harmless for humans. They grow up to 186 cm – which matches my snake’s size. Picture and more at next post, Thailand’s Cat Snake >
More information needed on Thailand snakes? Try this…
Thailand Snakes FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions and Answers regarding Thailand’s poisonous and nonpoisonous snakes.
