Just to clarify matters... my i.d. is in response to this snake query..

refer my post of 5 May

This one is similar to the one I saw in our garden, only smaller; it was inside our immediate neighbours house this morning they had no hesitation in having it killed.

She said its bite could kill a person within an hour. I have no idea, but there was no attempt to catch/chase off it was a goner.

Hope the pics are good enough for someone to ID,it is 1.2m long, and dead.

thanks

Here it is again...

looks to me like Naja Siamensis in black form.. (this species is highly variable in colour/markings)

common name is.. Indo-Chinese Spitting Cobra

its venom contains a deadly poison

Is it really a cobra? i've seen many of these around my house and thought it was some black greyish snake becuase it didn't have a hood or the marking behind itsneck.

This may bring a smile:

I went fishing this morning but after a short time I ran out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. Frogs are good bass bait.

Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.

Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit. So, I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth.

His eyes rolled back, he went limp. I released him into the lake without incident and carried on fishing using the frog.

A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot. There was that same snake with two frogs in his mouth

Bwaaaahaaahaaahaaahaaahaaaahaaahaaahaaa! F-<deleted> brilliant! I was splitting!

:D :D :D :D