Caitlin Stier, contributor
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| (Image: Jeremy Holden) |
Locked in what appears to be an embrace, this ruby-eyed green pit viper (Cryptelytrops rubeus) is lunging for its next meal: a hapless tree frog.
Rarely observed, the snake is native to the forests of Cambodia and southern Vietnam. Despite its striking appearance - blood-red eyes with emerald coils - rubeus was not previously categorised as a distinct species because of the similarities to its yellow-eyed cousin, the large-eyed green pit viper (Cryptelytrops macrops).
Now, with the help of a genetic study, Anita Malhotra of Bangor University, UK and colleagues have identified rubeus as a unique species.
13 comments:
TEACH AN OLD DOG A NEW TRICK!
This is what's happening with Siam thief right now!...They got their ass bitten and swallow by New khmer empier kingdom!
Nope! this is happening to Ahbullshit vejjajiva right now...hahah! Thailand got their head swallow by khmer green sneak..
It should be otherway Khmer have been shallow by are Youn dog eater little by little now, can your guys see it. Or your guys are blinds like are Kwack too.
4:15 AM, I agree with you!
Are you kidding me!! the Thai already won the battle.
They have removed the flag from the roof top of wat Khmer that all they want to do and that how the fighting started the flag on the roof top of wat Khmer.
snake is just like the Youns in srok Khmer, they already started to swallow Cambodia right now from the East to the West youns is every where even in PoyPet there are youns there .
Ah Sam Rainsy playing dead?
6:58 AM,
Are you kidding me? You are playing the game and cheating to steal Khmer land. You are one of a bunch of uneducated Thai thieves.
Don't be silly!
Poor Cambodians are food for the Viet Red Eye Dragon. Keep up the struggle!
7:32 AM,
You are the same as 6:58 AM and you are both Thieves, Vietcong and Thai.
They are both evils!
Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 10,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 10,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 10,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 10,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
6:58 AM
is right the fight started when Khmer flag on roof top of Wat Khmer and now Siem (Thai) successfully removed that from the roof top that is why they stopped fighting. They won and we lose because we can not keep the flag on the roof top of Wat Khmer.
Snake is represent Youns and frog is just like Khmer they swallow Cambodia just like the picture.
NO! NO!NO!This snake is Vietnam.His
tail is in Hanoi and his head is in Cambodia.Look at Vietnam map.She swallowed Champa,Khmer Krom,Lao,and
Cambodia.The Vietnam bites Hun Sen
head because Sam Rainsy party was abroad;so Vietnam can swallow so easy.
The next few years,Cambodia will be gone.
The pictures mean a thousand words and
ideas.
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