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About this snake:
This beautiful snake is one of the
most dramaticly colorful snakes in Class Serpentes. It has brilliant
leaf green cloroation with white markings along its whole body.
These white markings against the green body closely emulates
the patterns of sun splotches that penetrate the thick rain forest
canopy. As this snake grows older the green slowly becomes darker.
This pattern varies throughout the habitat and locale where individuals
live.
The Emerald Tree Boa has an internal
egg gestation of five and a half to seven months time. It seemingly
bears its offspring live, however this is due to the fact that
females will lay their eggs right at hatching time where sometimes
the egg hatches before, during or after they are layed. The young
snakes initially are born an earthy orange-red with white bars;
through time the color eventually changes to green over a few
weeks period at 4 to 9 months of age. This snake has a life span
of around 15 years.
It prefers to live in trees and bushes
that are near water. Its habitat includes being near swamp and
marshes in the rain forest. It is a nocturnal snake that coils
and drapes itself on the limbs of trees. It can lie there resting
motionless for long periods of time in this stance. This distinct
charactersitic of the Emerald Tree Boa to lie motionless and
coiled is unique among snakes.
This snakes body is rather stout with
a relativly thin neck supporting a large head. There is a pitting
that exists in both the lower and upper labials of the mouth.
These pits contain heat sensors that are key to this snakes ability
to hunt its food. The stout body tapers at the end with a strong
prehensile tail that gives them the ability to anchor on twigs
and branches where they lie motionless.
The Emerald Tree Boa have very long
teeth with which it holds its prey (to get through the bird feathers).
Its diet consits mostly of rodents and birds. This snake can
grow to be up to 2.2 meters.
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