Each quarter-hour, Bangkok’s “snake hunters” get an emergency name to answer shock serpent-human encounters within the Thai capital.

The frequency of those interactions will increase throughout the wet season within the southeast Asian nation, the place about 60,000 of those animals are captured yearly.

Between June and October, intense monsoon storms often trigger widespread flooding throughout the nation and improve snake sightings, because the limbless reptiles emerge from their flooded burrows to hunt shelter in drier, hotter spots, which regularly means folks’s houses.

These run-ins are each terrifying for some and fairly frequent; with its tropical local weather, Thailand is house to greater than 200 species of snakes, about 30 of that are venomous.

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