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Hong Kong snake encounters

Hong Kong snake encounters
Hong Kong has more than 40 species of snake and most of them are harmless. Some, however, are highly venomous and one bite is enough to kill.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Ivan Li is a 33-year-old seh wong – a Cantonese term for snake catcher which translates as “snake king”. Photo: Sun Yeung
Animal welfare in Hong Kong

How Hong Kong’s new breed of ‘snake kings’ are defanging a cruel practice

For years, reptiles that slithered close to humans would be delivered by ‘snake kings’ to authorities and might languish in boxes for days, but newly licensed catchers are putting them back into the wild almost right away.

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Hong Kong environmental issues

Snakes alive! Hong Kong hospital staff find 30cm reptile near operating theatre

Hong Kong police grapple with 2-metre python

Photography

Stunning snake photos entered in Hong Kong Facebook contest

Hong Kong has more than 50 snake species, and among the entries for the annual Hong Kong Snakes Facebook group’s photography competition were some amazing images of the reptiles.

Adam Francis won the Hong Kong Snakes competition with this photo of a king cobra. Photo: Adam Francis
Wellness

‘Like someone was drilling into my foot’, snake bite victim says

Steve Pheby was walking his dog in Hong Kong when he was bitten by a venomous snake. It pays to know your snake species, and what to do if one bites you.

Thailand

Bangkok fire department has 24-hour hotline for catching snakes

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On snake safari in Hong Kong

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Snake that may have swallowed a cat caught in Sai Kung

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Huge snake caught in Sai Kung

Explore Hong Kong

How Hongkongers can lose their fear of snakes, one selfie at a time

Organised safaris allow people to see and handle Hong Kong’s snakes, helping them overcome their fear and dispelling many long-held myths about the animals and their behaviour

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Dave Willott (in white T-shirt) and snake safari guests handle a common rat snake. in Hong Kong. Photo: Red Door News

Pet-eating Hong Kong python killed despite appeals from captor and victim

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Karl Davies (right) and snake catcher Dave Willott with Kaa, the captured Burmese python. Photo: Red Door News

Expat mauled by python pleads for it to be spared

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How Briton helped catch pet-eating Hong Kong python that attacked him

Businessman who lives in city’s countryside Sai Kung district tells of life-and-death struggle to prise 4-metre snake free. I just thought, ‘I have to get its jaws off my leg’, now-smiling Karl Davies says

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Two friends saved their dog from jaws of three-metre python after wrestling with it for half an hour on Hong Kong trail

Two friends battled a three-metre python for half an hour to rescue an 18kg pet dog from its grip in the Hong Kong countryside area of Sai Kung last week.

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Stacy Tucker with her dog Pippa recovering at home after being attacked by the python. Photo: Red Door News

Hong Kong pastor sees 'love' as goat battles killer python in failed attempt to protect its kid

The python killed the mother goat and its kid. Photos: Reverend Wong Kwong-fai
LIFE

Meet the snake-savers: How two men have spent decades rescuing reptiles in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's 57 indigenous species of snake, plus two species introduced from elsewhere, are surprising survivors in our built up territory, but residents need not be afraid of them, experts say.

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Look who popped in for lunch: Cobra makes Sai Kung house call

A lawyer told of the moment an unwelcome guest was spotted slipping into his home yesterday. The intruder was a cobra.

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Pet dog crushed to death by python in second attack in two weeks

A pet dog has been crushed to death in front of its owner and her two young children in the second attack by a huge python in Sai Kung West Country Park in less than a fortnight.

Python on the prom! Storm ‘washes snake down hillside’ into Quarry Bay park

A huge Burmese python caused a commotion yesterday afternoon at the Quarry Bay Promenade, attracting onlookers and biting the snake catcher that had come to subdue it.

Woman stabs 5-metre python with pocket knife to save her dog's life in Hong Kong country park

A dog walker stabbed a python the head after it clamped its jaws around her beloved pet Dexter and attempted to crush him to death.

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