Tioman Island is the locale where her lineage/subspecies is from, but kukris are all over Thailand. She's captive bred, only a few people in the US breed them I think. She mostly eats f/t hairless rat pups, but they can also eat eggs too.Originally Posted by Snagrio
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First time I've heard of a kukri. If you didn't say so I would've assumed it was a kingsnake.
Can you tell me more about her? She's beautiful.
In the wild, also frogs, toads and lizards. They have very specialized, enlarged teeth in the back of their jaw used for slicing (like a kukri knife). They use it to slice eggs open to drink from, and to..disembowel prey items and eat the organs. It's pretty brutal.
Females get about a meter long, males are smaller. Mine eats every 3-5 days. They have fast metabolisms and she's still growing, at a little over a year old. They aren't sit-and-wait predators. Nocturnal mostly, but I see mine out during the day.
Mine is extremely reluctant to bite and has never tried to, but im still careful. I wouldn't call it biting as much as slashing, though. They're non-venomous, despite their "fangs" but you don't really want to get nailed by one. There are wild imports, but captive breeding definitely mellowed them down.
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