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White-lipped Pit-Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris, male)
Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand
This pit-viper is poisonous and its bite can be fatal. It measures between 60 and 80 cm, the female being bigger. The male has the white "lips", which is lacking in females. I photogrpah this snakes thanks to a specialist who saw it crossing the road, while going out of the Kaeng Krachan NP in Thailand.
This place is famous for covering one of the biggest forest expanse remaining in south east Asia, and therefore host large population of mammal, birds, reptiles and other wildlife. The hilly terrain, covered in vegetation but more open in places, allows the creation of more or less permanent waterholes, which in my opinion attracts animals and makes them more visible, which is why this national park is a very good place for observation, particularly of felines.
Myself I have been there to observe birds, and this particular evening I stopped next by a pool hoping to spot a Fish Owl and eventually Malaysian Night Heron. None of those two birds showed up, but instead a Black Panther (melanistic Neofelis nebulosa) came to drink in the pool, and this snakes came out.
It was my very first sight of these two different animal genus. Thus all in all this national park has lived up to all its promises, as well as offering magnificent landscapes.
White-lipped Pit-Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris, male)
Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand
This pit-viper is poisonous and its bite can be fatal. It measures between 60 and 80 cm, the female being bigger. The male has the white "lips", which is lacking in females. I photogrpah this snakes thanks to a specialist who saw it crossing the road, while going out of the Kaeng Krachan NP in Thailand.
This place is famous for covering one of the biggest forest expanse remaining in south east Asia, and therefore host large population of mammal, birds, reptiles and other wildlife. The hilly terrain, covered in vegetation but more open in places, allows the creation of more or less permanent waterholes, which in my opinion attracts animals and makes them more visible, which is why this national park is a very good place for observation, particularly of felines.
Myself I have been there to observe birds, and this particular evening I stopped next by a pool hoping to spot a Fish Owl and eventually Malaysian Night Heron. None of those two birds showed up, but instead a Black Panther (melanistic Neofelis nebulosa) came to drink in the pool, and this snakes came out.
It was my very first sight of these two different animal genus. Thus all in all this national park has lived up to all its promises, as well as offering magnificent landscapes.