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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing! I should have been in Thailand right now…..

If it represents a mutation that reduces fitness (in the evolutionary sense) and thus will be selected against, it would be called aberrant I guess. However, it may represent a mutation that has been established in the population because, initially, it increased fitness simply because it was rare (a...

Hi Lou, wonderful, I know this species well from Koh Chang, alsways great to encounter! I guess the Oligodon is an O. taeniatus.

Some amazing vipers indeed! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing! The Krait is great. And the Kukri is wonderful too. I have come across quite a few O. purpurascens and actually keep one as a pet. The O. fascioalatus looks very similar to O. purpurascens. O.purpurascens exhibits a color pattern dimoprhism: one morph is red and has wide dorsal b...

Love that Krait!! Thanks for sharing

These pictures are surreal! And I know from experiece several of these species you don't come across every day! On the contrary..

Wow, another one that's still on my bucket list. What an amazing species!

Obviously, I'd love to go there. But I still want to find Bungarus fasciatus. I have been to Thailand and Malaysia so many times but never found it!

Well, the picture is better indeed but it's still hard to be 100% sure. The back of the depicted snake is more extensively black than in those specimens I have seen. I'm still pretty sure though (let's say 99%). However, I would need some morphological data to be absolutely certain….

I can't be 100% sure but I suspect the first snake (Waigeo) is a Dendrelaphis lineolatus. All the best, dendrelaphis

Thanks for sharing, love that python!

Love it! And several awesome species I still have to find myself…..

Dear Hans, I'm still missing your posts as well! But I have your book! Have a wonderful Christmas. All the best, Johan

very nice, thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for sharing, love that Coral snake!

I absolutely love finding pythons. They are so beautiful and sophisticated. They rock! King cobra's love pythons too (-: I have never found a Burmese yet, hope I will

wonderful shot!

That's a lot indeed, on Santubong, Borneo, I found one specimen in nearly 100 days (4 hours per day). I guess differences between populations and ecosystemens can be great. Example from my experience: Oligodon purpurascens from Tioman Island are fairly friendly snakes (although they will still provi...

awesome!, my favourite: the B. flaviceps.

Beautiful cobra!

Naja sumatrana from the Sunda region (Malaysia etc.) certainly spits

Wonderful! I love Florida, thanks for sharing!

Great, thanks!

Very cool finds indeed. I've spent quite some time on Borneo and several of those species I never found

Amazing, I've never seen that phenomenon. and some very nice snakes as well!

No idea, I have never seen anything like it (neither in "the snakes of Borneo", "Amphibiens and Reptiles of Mount Kinabulu" or "Amphibien und Reptilien Sudost Asiens"). It might be an undescribed species. However, without morphological data, it's impossible to say

Love it! Three B. dendrophila in one night is spectacular...

Wow, wonderful finds and the King Ratsnake is very impressive!

Thanks! they are indeed great snakes to find. And you don't come across them very often.

These pics are amazing as always and the B. flaviceps is breathtaking....

Absolutely wonderful finds and shots! Thanks

I love those retics! They are such beautiful snakes.

Wonderful, they are so totally different from the Bornean population, amazing! This one looks like the population living on Tioman island

Wonderful! I'm going to Thailand in 3 months, looking forward to it!

Got it, thanks! indeed, a situation very similar to ours, also with regard to distribution patterns

what species was that?

Those finds and shots are incredible. The Xenophidion must have made your heart jump, you might consider publishing that encounter somewhere. When you say "lowland forest of sarawak", where in Sarawak was that?

Oh wow, that is such an amazing encounter. It's been 18 years since I saw my last King cobra and I can still remember that encouter vividly. Thanks for sharing! I hope to find one this april!

This is an story some of you may like. I had been studying the taxonomy of the Asian Bronzeback snakes (genus Dendrelaphis) for some time, together with Gernot Vogel, when I encountered this specimen from the British Museum of Natural History: http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj592/dendrelaphis/M...

I just ordered the book Hans, looking forward to reading it! By the way, any snakes out there in Taiwan?

Great shots, I particularly love the juvenile O. hannah

Awesome! I have never found a B. fasciatus! Jealous! I'll be in Thailand in april and it'll definitively be one of my primary objectives. To be honest, eveny night I go out herping in S.E. Asia I hope to find one. Where the hell are they?

Thanks! Wonderful accounts and pictures. And a joy of recognition as I have visited several of those parcs myself. Now, after having seen your accounts, I'm considering going there again. It's been a long time and the "feeling" was suddenly back.

Wonderful finds and amazing pictures, thanks!!

I love those Boiga dendrophila!

Well, I actually did properly identify the Naja sumatrana before approaching it

But of course you're right, it's careless

This is how I fortunately got away: I was walking at night through Malaysian ranforest when I heard a loud hiss. I searched for a while and then found a spitting cobra, in defensive position in a narrow stream. I put down my hand torch and backpack and approached the beautiful snake with only my hea...

These are truely amazing finds and pictures. Mating B. flaviceps!! and B. f. baluensis, incredible...... Thanks

For obvious reasons I love the D. kopsteini :) Not only because of the snake itself. After Gernot and I described it, we were contacted by F. Kopstein's son. I was quite surprised. He was very happy with the fact that his father was honoured this way. He sent me some pictures of his father in Sumatr...

nice, thanks!