islandhippy

Nick Baker, neighbour, host of the Ecology Asia website and former chairman of the Vertebrate Study Group of the Nature Society (Singapore), has identified and photographed nine species of snake outside our flat:

• Reticulated Python
• Equatorial Spitting Cobra
• Brahminy Blind Snake
• Oriental Whip Snake
• Paradise Tree Snake
• Striped Kukri Snake
• Banded Malayan Coral Snake
• Common House Snake
• Painted Bronzeback

The Reticulated Pythons have eaten ten cats on our street in two years (including our cat Fishball, RIP) and an Equatorial Spitting Cobra was responsible for the death of a neighbour's Jack Russel. We see Equatorial Spitting Cobras at least once a fortnight, sunbathing on the concrete path behind the flat or next to the mosque in the mornings