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Lets See Some Green Snakes

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Living in Southern California, I don't get to see any green colored snakes. OK, there's the yellow bellied racer, but it's not really all that green. While in Singapore recently, I found my first green snake. A beautiful 2 meter Oriental Whipsnake.

Anyways, lets see your green snake finds!

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Green is certainly a beautiful color for snakes to be, I always get a little extra excited when I come across a green snake of an sort. I have photos of a few....

Smooth Green Snake
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Rough Green Snake
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Blunt headed green tree snake (Uromacer catesbyi)
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Green Vine Snake/Oriental whip snake
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Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus)
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Antonsrkn wrote: Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus)
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:shock: :shock: :shock: That is possibly the coolest snake I've ever seen!
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I agree. Green is wonderful. Funny, though, how green snakes are so easy to spot in the surrounding green canopy. Their green is not the green of the leaves, rather, they all look like cheap Chinese plastic toys. Maybe humans perceive their particular green differently than their predators?

As to Lou's vine snake, for my money, the stereoscopic eye arrangement of the vine snake and the weird elongated pupils make their face (seen from the front) the coolest mug in all of snakedom.

Here's my contribution: Borneo Dispatches #76: Mean Green Ratsnake Machine
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Yeah, I agree. Almost looks like a dog.

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Come on, admit it - you put him among the bougainvilleas, right? No way you actually found him there! :-)
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He was found in a nearby tree. We put him on the grass for some pics and video and that's where he ended up going. We didn't pose him, just let him roam freely.
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Wonderful!
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Senticolis triaspis, 2012

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Opheodrys vernalis, 2013

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No rough greens yet? I'll fix that...
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Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus

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Here are some Green snakes found in Northern part of Western Ghats. As you travel south of Goa Gap, the number of snake species found increases dramatically and also there are some interesting snakes species like- Ahaetulla Dispar, Ahaetulla Perotteti(both are mostly terrestrial snakes even though they belong to Ahaetulla genus.)


Bamboo Pit Viper(Trimeresurus gramineus)- This is the commonest pit viper that is encountered in northern western ghats.
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Malabar Pit Viper(Trimeresurus Malabaricus)- This is one the most polymorphic species of snakes found here in ghats.
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Common Vine Snake(Ahaetulla Nasuta)- One of the common names for this species is Green Whip snake, even this snake is found in couple of different morphs(brown, yellow and green). I am adding a comparative shot of both the variations of this species found in northern western ghats.
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Green Keelback(Macrophistodon Plumbicolor)- One of the uncommon keelbacks here. Also adults and juveniles look completely different from each other. Neonates are the cutest of the lot.
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John Martin wrote:
Antonsrkn wrote: Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus)
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:shock: :shock: :shock: That is possibly the coolest snake I've ever seen!
Thanks! I was pretty ecstatic when I saw it, if I recall correctly the striping indicates its a young female and she was an extremely responsive little snake. She tracked my movements as I photographed her it was pretty cool to see, all the other vipers I have photographed pretty much sit still.

Since you liked it, here is another shot of her.
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Both from Yunnan, China
Rhadinophis prasinum
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Pytas nigromarginatus
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Trimeresurus flavomacularus

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Philippine Pitviper, just recently posted in another thread, but let's share again. One of the workers brought me a Gonyosoma oxycephalus (red-tailed ratsnake) just the other day he found nearby - one of my favorite species of snakes and, in my opinion, the most beautiful snake in green uniform!
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Just found my second Oriental Whip on a recent trip to Singapore. Love these snakes!
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mm like mint with a twist for the eyes
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I have lots of photos of captive "green" snakes, but here are the wild caught species I have off the top of my head....

Leptophis mexicanus - San Luis Potosi, Mexico

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Drymobius margaritiferus - South Texas

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Opheodrys aestivus - east Texas

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Oxybelis fulgidus - Ecuador

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Senticollis triaspis - San Luis Potosi, Mexico

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Ahaetulla nasuta (Long-nosed Whip/Wine Snake)

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Chrysopelea ornata (Golden Tree Snake)

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Trimeresurus albolabris (Yellow/White-lipped Green Pit Viper)

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The King Cobra I found were also greenish, but I'll let be of posting anything from that anymore due to incoming bullets and grenades!

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Naja Bungarus wrote:Image
Very interesting! What exactly is your rationale for picking up a pit viper with your bare hands? They never bite? The venom of this particular species can't kill humans? You know exactly how to handle them so they won't bite?
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This is the first and only Trimeresurus albolabris I've found. What I did was to take it out of the bag during the day, and when I saw it did not go into any striking position, even when I held my hand closer and closer, I decided to give it a try to hold it, because it moved so slowly and didn't seem to bother me at all.

This is a screenshot from a video shooting (Thanks to David Frohlich for filming).
When we did that shooting it bit me once with a dry bite, because I moved my hand a little too fast.

After that no more bites and I could hold it over and over again, the whole day, and it seemed to really enjoy it.

BUT:

I don't recommend anyone to try the same, as they can kill you without antivenom from a good bite.

And NEVER try to hold one at night, that's when they're in their right elememt and in hunting mood, OR during the day for that matter.

I experienced a good bite at night during rain in the jungle from the same snake later that day (I thought we were still friends :lol: ), when I was going to release it.
I refused antivenom at the hospital the same day since the blood test results was "ok", but that was for now.

I was told to come back to the hospital 7am the day after for a new blood test, and I did not sleep more than maybe 30 min that night because of the extreme pain, like my arm was on fire, and the test next morning were not good at all.
I was sent straight to the emergency room and recieved 3 bags of antivenom and spent almost a week in the hospital.
After some days in the hospitals I got inner bleeding on my right side of my body, and half of my gentials got red colored (they're fine now by the way and still fully functional) :thumb:

I can post a picture of my finger, so people can see what kind of dammage a bite from this snake can do to you.
My finger is fine now, missing just about 1mm of flesh where the fangs entered and my nail is like a bow, other than that it's as it was before :)
This was in september/october 2013

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Thank you for the elaborate explanation, Henning. I learned a lot.
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Hans Breuer (twoton) wrote:Thank you for the elaborate explanation, Henning. I learned a lot.
You're welcome, Hans, but I'm sorry thats all info I can give as I'm not an expert on these snakes and this was just something I tried out by myself and I do not recommend anyone to try to do the same.
I'm sure different individuals react differently, some might bite while others are more calm.
So always be careful with these, and please don't do like I did!

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Mindblowing... (And not in the good way)

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Jimmy_77 wrote:Mindblowing... (And not in the good way)

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I will be here, there, and possibly anywhere, so be careful when you click :lol:
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Adding just two.

Natrix natrix astreptophora from Spain
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Bothriopsis bilineata from Peru
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Thanks to David Frohlich for finding these 2 amazing green snakes (among many others) this last weekend close to Pala U waterfall in Thailand :)

Boiga cyanea (Green Cat Snake)

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Rhabdophis nigrocinctus (Green Keelback) juvenile

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Boiga drapiezii very rarely comes in green but when it does...
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From Borneo.
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Ruxs wrote:Boiga drapiezii very rarely comes in green but when it does...
Same with Dendrelaphis pictus which your friend David found the same weekend (we're pretty sure it is D. pictus), in green color. I don't have any good shots of it though, I'll look through my images when i got time and see again.

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Smooth Green from Utah

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Naja Bungarus wrote:
Ruxs wrote:Boiga drapiezii very rarely comes in green but when it does...
Same with Dendrelaphis pictus which your friend David found the same weekend (we're pretty sure it is D. pictus), in green color. I don't have any good shots of it though, I'll look through my images when i got time and see again.

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Dendrelaphis pictus (Common/painted Bronzeback) in greenish color
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Ah, I thought so Henning. Thats a rare Blue Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis cyanachloris), one of my favourite species of Thai snake. Here's a couple of my pictures to help you see the similarities. First, the only one I found in Thailand, a bit further south:Image
And one from Malaysia:Image
Make sure you mention to David what you found ;)
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Rancorrye wrote:Smooth Green from Utah
I think this snake was posed on the same rock!
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Ruxs wrote:Ah, I thought so Henning. Thats a rare Blue Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis cyanachloris), one of my favourite species of Thai snake. Here's a couple of my pictures to help you see the similarities. First, the only one I found in Thailand, a bit further south:Image
And one from Malaysia:Image
Make sure you mention to David what you found ;)
Thanks for identifying Rupert, our mistake :) yes indeed a beautiful snake!

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