ALIEN ZOO

NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

KARL SHUKER uncovers the surprising truth behind Thailand’s green hairy snake GREEN, HAIRY, SCARY! In early March 2022, numerous websites were reviewing a TikTok video posted on 27 February by user @firstminimini of a bizarre, scary-looking freshwater snake – captured alive by local man Tu in a swamp in Thailand’s Sakon Nakhon province – that seemed at first sight to be covered in long green hair or fur. In fact, its ‘fur’ was profuse algæ attached to this 2ft/60cm-long snake’s dorsal and lateral scales (its belly was unaffected). Taxonomically, it was apparently a species of Homalopsis water snake, a mildly venomous Asian colubrid that typically lurks motionless inside rocky crevices in still, stagnant water to seize prey, but where, as a result, algal growth upon it can occur. Although this…

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