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Snakes in wire cages

Snakes in wire cages
Submitted by Andrew Suddaby
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Andrew Suddaby

It was still hot in early November and the shop keeper hosed his snakes down to keep them cool.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Sunday, November 1, 1987
Gallery: 
1987 Andrew Suddaby's photos
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Submitted by gw on Mon, 2015-10-12 23:32.

The distinctive yellow and black striped snakes are probably Beauty Snakes, a type of Rat Snake, imported into Hong Kong as they are edible. Some of them escaped from captivity to establish populations in the wild, see www.gwulo.com/atom/16912.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Tue, 2015-10-13 02:08.

Thanks for the identification gw.  If their name is anything to go by I guess that they are very useful.