Wolf Snake

Just found a little legless fellow a while ago during enjoying a house party in Mt Cameron Road, the Peak. It is a juvenile Wolf Snake. Probably it was the yummy, fleshy geckos that attracted it to come into the backyard of the house. This little fellow was fleeing so swiftly from my hands. It almost managed to get into somewhere to hide completely. Finally I grabbed it but was offered a speedy bite resulting another pair of tiny pinholes with blood on my hand.

Common Wolf Snake (Lycodon aulicus), or 白環蛇 in chinese, is a medium-sized, non-venomous snake of the family Colubridae. In the wild they mainly prey on small lizards like geckos and skinks. Frogs are also seen to be fed on. These snakes are strictly nocturnal. They are generally not common in Hong Kong but I have found them in many localities in the New Territories and Hong Kong Island.