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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:35 pm Post subject: Snakes in Korea and other animals |
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Was walking home through a rice pady, and was surprised to see a snake slithering across my path. Didn't know such animals were in Korea. Any one else seen any?
Have also seen a deer up in the hills too. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Mmmm....dinner for a lucky family.
I thought we did this one before. Maybe that was just spiders and insects and the like, specifically the poisonous variety.
At the college I worked at last year in Ansan, there were wild goats that frequented the neighboring hill sides. The security guards would chase them away.
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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down in mokpo last year i saw several in glass boxes for sale in hyundai department store..
i live in the country so i pass loads of rice growing on my way to school.. i thought about this just the other day actually.. i bet there are 1000's of snakes sliding around in there..
but, i don't really know |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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There are some snakes on here sometimes.  |
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bulgogiboy
Joined: 12 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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I used to live in Pohang, and there were some woods at the back of my apartment. I was surprised(and fascinated) one night to see a snake slithering along the pavement. Very interesting for somebody from the UK with it's (yawn) wildlife. A Korean friend of mine used to go to school in that same area of Pohang and he said he saw them slithering on the road often.
Have you ever been to the snake farm in Bangkok? There are some scary snakes there! The King cobra had to be the coolest though, huge and deadly poisonous!
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:53 am Post subject: |
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I have seen snakes both in the Ulsan area and Jirisan. Nobody ever knows if they are poisonous or not. They have all been about 2 feet long. Got some good photos.  |
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Michelle
Joined: 18 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:33 am Post subject: Snakes aren't interesting.. |
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Ahh,
Poisonous snakes aren't interesting to an Aussie. But I got excited to see moles and squirrels on my bushwalk!!
"i'm just a little bit different, why shouldn't I be?" |
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Gosp
Joined: 13 May 2004
Location: 85% There.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't know about Korea, but here in the southern U.S. snakes are everywhere. Walked right past a huge cottonmouth water moccasin basking in the sun two days ago during a lakeside walk with my nephew and niece. I didn't say anything, just kept walking and the little ones never saw it. When we came back through he was gone. Traffic, baby. Snakes hate it. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Snakes aren't interesting.. |
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| Michelle wrote: |
Ahh,
Poisonous snakes aren't interesting to an Aussie. But I got excited to see moles and squirrels on my bushwalk!!
"i'm just a little bit different, why shouldn't I be?" |
Different's good. No squirrels in Australia. From time to time when peace and quiet was the order of the day, I used to bus over to Naksongdae temple and sit out the back just chillin for an afternoon. There was always a squirrel or two in the trees over the fence. It was good to forget traffic and chaos. Then one day the squirrels they gone n they never back. I wonder if somebody ate them.
One night while we were at Grandma's house outside of Onyang, I heard the bawling of what I thought was cattle. I staggered through about two kilometres of high grass and fences in a drunken fumble to get to the source. Reindeer! Giant beasties with their horns cut off, n all trussed crampy-like in tiny enclosures. Sad I was. So I went home. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| I nearly ran over a deer earlier this summer while driving late a night. I was taking an auxiliary road through the forest that links the highway the main road when it happened. Korean deer are only the size of large dogs. |
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sublimeshawn
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Location: Nebraska, USA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| I see a hell of a lot of huge toads! biggest Ive eve seen in person! And of course the rice cranes, other than that I done see much wildlife, I miss wisconsin for that! |
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sublimeshawn
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Location: Nebraska, USA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| I see a hell of a lot of huge toads! biggest Ive eve seen in person! And of course the rice cranes, other than that I done see much wildlife, I miss wisconsin for that! |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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There was a thread last winter about the amur leopard cat.
This thing is wierd. Body of a leopard and head of a cat. It's territory comprises of eastern China, Russia, North Korean and sometimes seen in South Korea, if it get across the DMZ somehow.
Anybody got a pic of it?
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