The Sri Lankan Pit viper is arboreal and nocturnal, occasionally descending to the ground in search of food.

Boiga dendrophila levitoni (Gaulke, Demegillo, G. Vogel, 2005) – Found in Panay island, and probably in other islands of the West Visayas region.

Boiga irregularis, is a brown-coloured, poisonous snake that has been hitchhiking from plane to plane for 80 years.

The brown tree snake is one of the only reptile species that has become an introduced pest anywhere in the world.

The nocturnal or diurnal surveys allowed us remarkable discoveries: numerous tree vipers of the genus Trimeresurus, some enormous Reticulated Pythons, strange cecilians, or the different species of the genus Boiga. (more…)

In Guam, the brown tree snake, an import that arrived hidden in ship cargo from New Guinea, has wiped out virtually all the island’s native forest birds.

A recent study has suggested that Boiga irregularis, a brown-coloured, poisonous snake arrived on Guam Island in the Pacific Ocean by hitchhiking on American military plane during the Second World War.

Once widespread on the Pacific island of Guam, its numbers declined after the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) was accidentally introduced at the end of World War Two.