Sanook Thai Cap: "Jumbo" Albino Python

 

A bicycle repairman called Chalermchai Jainat, 52, told Sanook how he called rescue services after a troublesome python proved too tricky to handle.

 

Chaermchai said he was minding his own business repairing bikes when his mum who was relaxing on a wood platform heard the sound of what she thought was a person dragging wood.

 

On closer inspection it was a huge albino python slithering towards the road and a possible accident about to happen. 

 

The staff at the Asan repair shop in Phiman sub-district of Satun, southern Thailand, tried to grab it's tail end but it slithered off to hide under some coconut husks under a mango tree.

 

When Thammarangsri rescue services arrived the serpent fled the mango scene into a disused pond where it was eventually caught with a noose and returned to nature.

 

Chalermchai said that the area had lots of snakes that were usually after cats to eat.

 

The change in the weather had brought many of them down from the nearby hills for water and food. 

 

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10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Chalermchai said that the area had lots of snakes that were usually after cats to eat.

Send them to our area heaps of possible food for them .......................LOL

I have a book Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand.  There is no mention of an Albino Python . I'm calling Cobras on this. 

15 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

I have a book Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand.  There is no mention of an Albino Python . I'm calling Cobras on this. 

The only cobra reaching 4 metres plus is a King Cobra, and there would be no mistaking it for a python.

 

"The Burmese python is frequently captive-bred for color, pattern, and more recently, size. Its albino form is especially popular and is the most widely available morph. This morph is white with patterns in butterscotch yellow and burnt orange. Also, "labyrinth" specimens with maze-like patterns, khaki-colored "green", and "granite" with many small angular spots are available. Breeders have recently begun working with an island lineage of Burmese pythons. Early reports indicate that these dwarf Burmese pythons have slightly different coloring and pattern from their mainland relatives and do not grow much over 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in length. One of the most sought-after of these variations is the leucistic Burmese. This particular variety is very rare, being entirely bright white with no pattern and blue eyes, and has only in 2008/2009 been reproduced in captivity as the homozygous form (referred to as "super" by reptile keepers) of the co-dominant hypomelanistic trait. The caramel Burmese python has a caramel-colored pattern with "milk-chocolate" eyes."

 

The head of the snake in the OP does not look like a Python. More like a King Cobra

 

I'd have thought that Bicycle repairman could have dealt with the snake himself.

3 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Send them to our area heaps of possible food for them .......................LOL

The only trouble is Python's are not that tasty compared to the Cobra.

4 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I have a book Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand.  There is no mention of an Albino Python . I'm calling Cobras on this. 

No matter what it is, i call it "5 colours in my underwear" if he is in my garden.

4 hours ago, pagallim said:

The only cobra reaching 4 metres plus is a King Cobra, and there would be no mistaking it for a python.

 

"The Burmese python is frequently captive-bred for color, pattern, and more recently, size. Its albino form is especially popular and is the most widely available morph. This morph is white with patterns in butterscotch yellow and burnt orange. Also, "labyrinth" specimens with maze-like patterns, khaki-colored "green", and "granite" with many small angular spots are available. Breeders have recently begun working with an island lineage of Burmese pythons. Early reports indicate that these dwarf Burmese pythons have slightly different coloring and pattern from their mainland relatives and do not grow much over 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in length. One of the most sought-after of these variations is the leucistic Burmese. This particular variety is very rare, being entirely bright white with no pattern and blue eyes, and has only in 2008/2009 been reproduced in captivity as the homozygous form (referred to as "super" by reptile keepers) of the co-dominant hypomelanistic trait. The caramel Burmese python has a caramel-colored pattern with "milk-chocolate" eyes."

It absolutely is a king cobra in the photos. The color and the scale pattern is all wrong for a python, but spot on for a king cobra. Especially the two huge scales on its head are dead give aways!

2 hours ago, pikao said:

 

The head of the snake in the OP does not look like a Python. More like a King Cobra

 

That’s because it is a king cobra.

They'll be hanging round his house tomorrow looking for lottery numbers in the snake dung

4 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I have a book Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand.  There is no mention of an Albino Python . I'm calling Cobras on this.

 

There absolutely are albino pythons. It’s the white colored ones with the yellow pattern on it. Britney Spears famously had one around her neck either in one of her videos or while on tour. If you google it, you’ll find a pic.
 

True cobras, the ones belonging to the naja genus, don’t get that long, so that leaves us with king cobra and the one in the photos of the article is just that. The huge scales on its head as well as the coloration are a dead give away.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A bicycle repairman called Chalermchai Jainat, 52, told Sanook how he called rescue services after a troublesome python proved too tricky to handle.

It wouldn't stay on the rim?

5 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I have a book Snakes and other reptiles of Thailand.  There is no mention of an Albino Python . I'm calling Cobras on this. 

Albino pythons are usually captive bred and released when too big to keep at home.

This one may have been let go and survived in the wild.

1 hour ago, peter zwart said:

No matter what it is, i call it "5 colours in my underwear" if he is in my garden.

What are the other 4?

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

What are the other 4?

You realy dont want to know. But if you do i will send you my underwear when sj!t hits the cotton.

A king cobra. Reportedly returned to the wild, but more likely ended up as somebody's dinner, sad to say.