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#15 It's an Asian vine snake [genus Ahaetulla]. e.g., see

http://zoltantakacs.com/zt/pw/sn/s06.shtml

Rear-fanged, arboreal lizard eaters, [but harmless to people], very
similar in appearance and way of life to the tropical American vine
snakes of the genus Oxybelis [a neat case of convergent evolution in
distantly-related snakes]

Illustrating this point further, compare your beastie:

http://www.ecologyasia.com/Vertebrat...whip-snake.htm
http://www.szgdocent.org/cc/c-whip.htm

vs.the superficially [and ecologically] similar American forms:

http://www.photovault.com/Link/Anima...VineSnake.html
[clearly it's the green O. fulgidus, not O. aeneus as labeled]
http://www.fathom.com/media/features...snake2_LG.html
http://www.reptile-gardens.com/repti...ry/photo8.html

http://www.arachnophiliac.com/burrow...vine_snake.jpg
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/O_aeneus.jpg [odd that these two
are poorly focussed]

http://www.fathom.com/feature/122594/1/969

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