Here are a few of the DWA species caught in 2 seperate trips to South-East Asia last year and this year.

Rhabdophis subminiatus, Red necked keelback. This species is extremely common in many areas, especially during the rainy season when there are many frogs and tadpoles. We could almost guarantee catching one of these everytime we went out.
There are 2 species of Rhabdophis covered by DWA, R.subminiatus and R.tigrinus. However, fatal bites have only occured from R.tigrinus bites.



Next is a small species of Elapid, Calliophis maculiceps. This specimen was almost fully grown at 30cm, about as thin as a pencil. Even at this small adult size, C.maculiceps has caused many fatalities and should not be underestimated. They are usually passive by nature but this one was extremely aggressive, biting everything its mouth came into contact with. All Calliophis sp. are notoriously difficult to keep in captivity due to their very specialist diet, feeding almost exclusively of fossorial snakes.




And finally, a very popular captive species, Cryptolytrops albolabris. These are a very common viper but difficult to spot in the wild due to their excellent camoflague and nocturnal habits. This specimen was a sub-adult.




All animals were found and photgraphed in Phanom Bencha National Park in Southern Thailand.

no kings? nice pics mate.

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cool pics!! wish i was there....

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Sadly no Kings in the wild.........yet

However, if your into your elapids, heres a pic of a young Sumatran Spitting Cobra we caught a few months back in Sabah, Borneo. Because it was caught close to a village, we relocated it a few miles away (mainly for the safety of the snake). This little guy was only around 2ft in length, but from his attitude i think he may have thought he was an 18ft king.

I do have an interest in certain elapids, cobra's mainly, I only keep vipers at the moment though.

So do you go on working holidays, or research programs or what?, id love to do something like that.

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The trips I go on are just herping trips, i go out for 2-3 months at a time to find and photograph as many species as i can.

Nice pics. It's good to see species which are often overlooked in general chat.