Barney
Boa Constrictor (Boa Constrictor)
About me
| Basic Info | Home: | No constriction issues with our habitat, we're slithering over the place – be it Northern Peru, Bolivia, Brazil or the southern tip of Argentina. |
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| Size: | Being a female, I'm just under 14 feet long, which is about the most a Boa can grow. My husband Barry on the other hand, can only get to about the 8 feet mark. Girl power. | |
| Favourite foods: | What with our separating jaws and all (a favourite trick at dinner parties!) we can munch into a bit of dinner which is much larger than the width of our head, something like an average sized rabbit, if it's unlucky enough to hop past at lunch time. Watch out though, even though we've got a chilled nature we're actually pretty strong chappies, mess with us and we can squeeze the life out of you, can't eat you though, we need to swallow our meals whole and you're too big – booooo! | |
| Environment: | Anywhere in the Amazon where there's shrubs and bushes you'll find us, with my bigger (fatter!) friends creeping about the forest floor. | |
| Sounds like: | Have a guesssssssssssssss........ |
| Further Info |
Boa Constrictors have a mouth equipped with rows of backwards facing hooked teeth which allow them to securely maintain their hold on their prey once they have struck it, in comparison venomous snakes will strike to inject their venom and then immediately release their prey in order to avoid injury while the venom takes effect. Boids including the boa constrictor are unusual among the snakes in that most of them give birth to live young rather than laying eggs. The young are born as fully formed miniature versions of their mother and are immediately independent of her. In the past large numbers of these snakes were taken from the wild for the exotic pet trade and to supply demand for skins to make items such as handbags and shoes. Today, most snake skins are produced by snake farms, therefore very few are now removed from the wild to supply these industries. |
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