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Pattaya — A snake was caught at a Café Amazon outlet on Pattaya Third Road on Saturday evening. The cafe employee, Ms. Chonthicha Saenkhonyang, 19, spotted a large snake inside the Café Amazon premises located in North Pattaya around 5:30 PM on January 6th. The snake, later identified as a non-venomous but potentially aggressive copperhead […]

Snake Caught at Cafe Amazon in Pattaya
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Isn’t a copperhead highly venomous?  

3 hours ago, Joeleg said:

Isn’t a copperhead highly venomous?  

Famous last words

3 hours ago, Joeleg said:

Isn’t a copperhead highly venomous?  

They are in America. Maybe they have non poisonous copperheads here.

Place in the ecosystem: The Copperhead Rat Snake feeds on rats and mice and helps control Bangkok’s rodent populations. It also eats birds, lizards, and frogs. Juveniles of the species provide food for larger snakes, monitors, and birds of prey.

Danger to humans: This snake is aggressive when threatened and is large enough to inflict some damage with its bite. A recent study has found that it produces some venom, quite similar to the venom of cobras. However, it only produces a small amount of venom and does not have venom-injecting fangs, so effects in humans are limited to redness and mild swelling at worst.

Also called the copperhead racer snake as they're fast movers. Encountered the one pictured below on a recce for a hash trail last week. This guy was in rubber tree plantation and saw first hand how fast they can move. Fortunately it was moving away from us when it hit the accelerator. But that was after it scared the bejesus out of us by rearing up like it was going to strike. Guess he didn't like me taking his picture.

1 hour ago, Nanaman said:

They are in America. Maybe they have non poisonous copperheads here.

Also back home in Oz.