#Colombian boa

[scarletandgreyexotics]

This fine lady really shows off the blend of BI and BCC traits that you get with the Barranquilla locality (a naturally-occurring integrade).

Mosa, 2020 Barranquilla Colombian BI/BCC

#mosa #barranquilla colombian #colombian boa #boa constrictor #snake #my noodles

[liasismorelia]

#snake #reptile #reptiles #snakes #boa #rainbow boa #colombian rainbowboa

[1spooky-dad]

Sorry but that's HER protein bar now

#Colombian red tail boa #anery boa #snake #she is so cute #i love boas cute little faces

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

I've had a really rough end of July so if possible could you share some happy things about snakes?

Sorry you're having a rough time. I'm a similar spot but hey, we got this! And one thing you can always count on, no matter how tough things get? Awesome snake facts. 😎

Some of my favorite feel-good snake facts:

Did you know snakes can have friends? Garter snakes are very social by snake standards, and they have complex social relationships! They form friendships and consistently choose to hang out with their buddies!

Boomslangs are gorgeous, highly venomous colubrids. They're beautiful, charismatic snakes!

And when they're babies, they look like bobbleheads. Definitely some of the cutest babies in the snake world!

Did you know that snakes save millions of lives every year? Snake venom collected at venom labs is used in the production of life-saving medications, especially cardiac and anti-convulsive drugs!

Saw-scaled vipers. Highly venomous, very grumpy...and absolutely adorable!

Broad-headed snakes are currently some of the most endangered snakes in Australia, suffering from the effects of habitat loss. However, we're hearing lots of good news about them lately - zoo breeding programs are helping to increase genetic diversity in the captive population with hopes to release snakes into the wild, and plans to restore their lost habitats in the Sydney Basin are underway.

This isn't necessarily a fact but I really love this picture of an egg-eating snake who is so happy to have found a yummy egg.

Snakes can have heterochromia! It's most often seen in leucistic snakes, and they have one blue eye and one black eye. Almost every single one I've heard of (and the only one I've ever seen in person) have been leucistic Colombian rainbow boas.

Black-tailed rattlesnakes are so beautiful, they always make me happy! They come in an incredible range of colors, from dark browns to dusky greys.

Speaking of beautiful rattlers, speckled rattlesnakes can look like cookie dough ice cream!

Hope things look up for you soon! Take care.

#not a rating #snake facts

[skull-hoarder]

Well, I'm doing a little experiment with this Mojave rattlesnake that I bought a few days ago.

Basically, I prepared it for the dermestids, removing skin and organs as usual, unlike the fact that at the end I fill it with plastic bags to give it volume, since I have noticed that they flatten quite a bit when it is just a carcass, which makes the skeleton look less natural.

So it is filled with plastic and wrapped in a thread, supported by pins and sticks, let's hope it dries well and without deforming

If it works I'll try to do the same with a Colombian rainbow boa I have in the fridge and maybe a ball python, I'll also try to get a better rattlesnake from a local breeder since this one was pretty broken from being roadkill, still I think it will turn out pretty well, I cross my fingers

#vulture culture #dead things #dead animal #bone processing #bone cleaning #dead snake #dermestids

[herpsandbirds]

Northern Boa aka Colombian Boa (Boa imperator), family Boidae, getting kinda spicy, Costa Rica

Sometimes referred to as a subspecies, Boa constrictor imperator.

photograph by Diego Ugalde Photography

#boa #boidae #snake #reptile #herpetology #animals #nature #central america

[astroboots]

i saw you were asking around for homecoming requests and i'm not sure if you've mentioned this before but any baking/cooking headcanons? who likes making food for the others and is good at it? who thinks they're good at it but is actually terrible? (i'm thinking santi personally lol) or maybe just some domesticity slice of life stuff centered around that kind of thing!

Oh I love this: In order of best to worst cook.

Frankie: Best cook. He's the best househusband ok? I haven't portrayed Frankie's childhood in much depth in Homecoming yet, but Frankie as I headcanon him comes from a well-off family.

He wasn't close to his dad, who was emotionally distant and Frankie's mom can be strict and a perfectionist which made Frankie often feel like an outsider in his own house. Instead he often gravitated to their housemaid, Lola who was always in the kitchen cooking while he was young and he happily volunteered to assist in the kitchen, because of the warm atmosphere there and Lola's encouragement and kind words were often the only source of praise he got in that household. It's why Frankie associates cooking with love and acceptance and even into his adulthood, he loves to cook for the people he loves as a way of earning their affection.

Frankie is very good at cooking as a result and he loves to cook for both Santiago and Boa. In fact he may have won Boa's affections by constantly cooking for her while on leave and Boa was studying for her exams at college.

Santiago: So I've ranked him as second best even though technically... Santiago is the better cook. Santiago grew up in a household filled with people and his mom is a master cook, often hosting large dinner parties for the neighbourhood and Santiago often watched, tasted and ate a lot of insanely good food.

in his adulthood those flavors have stayed with him. He's just a naturally talented cook (as he is with so many other things in his life) but I've ranked him second bc the bastard DOES NOT clean up after himself and is messy as fuck when he cooks.

He also only cooks once upon a blue moon, when he feels inspired to do it. And while he's amazing at cooking dishes from his childhood memories, do not ask him to cook recipes he's never tried out before and whatever yo do do not ask him to bake, your kitchen will never look the same

Boa: Boa poor Boa, our babygirl was a single child in a household where her mom was constantly working and she grew up on frozen pizza and poptarts. She has no cooking skills, she can make herself ramen. That's it. She has a weakness for Colombian food, having grown up on Santiago's mom's food. But everytime she tries to recreate one of the recipes it looks like a bombsite and both Santiago/Frankie has agreed it's better if Boa just... doesn't cook.

#homecoming asks #💌 ask

[woodlnds]

Planet Zoo shenanigans v.5

My second zoo, dubbed Kihansi Biopark (named after the kihansi spray toad) is up and running! My only mammals at the moment are these beautiful west african lions, my two females named Ikhwezi and Ilanga, and their very handsome boyfriend named Ingubo :’)

These two shots were taken in my exotics house at night, as I thought the heat lamps made for an interesting aesthetic with the animals basking under them. Featuring Bruna my female colombian boa constrictor and Alvaro my male antillean iguana.

The rest are some more random pics I got during enclosure inspection! Featuring from top to bottom: Boni the lehmann’s poison dart frog, Akama the goliath frog, Kasam the emperor scorpion, Cecil the golden poison dart frog, and Emile the green iguana (this is the best camera angle ever lmaooo)

#planet zoo #planet zoo game #planet coaster #gaming #biology #zoology #animals #poison dart frogs #Goliath frog #green iguana #antillean iguana #boa constrictor #lion #animal welfare

[hasufin]

Nonsense inconsistency

I hate magic realism. The genre has an inherently inconsistent nonsense level. In a magic realism story, it's possible to have an incredibly mundane Colombian village but oh yes there's a disease which causes people to forget all nouns, a trader passing though instantly recognizes it and has the cure, but no one even comments that it was weird.

An old man with enormous wings shows up, they think he's an angel, but once they realize the language he speaks isn't Latin, even though it's established that people never have wings, nobody cares about the old man at all.

What this has always meant to me, as a reader, is that the rules of the world are not simply unknown, but unknowable. You have no idea if the people treat Baughb The Elf as normal because elves are a totally normal thing in this setting and there just happens to only be one of them in the town, or if it's because there are no elves except Baughb anywhere but everyone has just decided to not care because Baughb isn't a problem for anyone.

And I'm realizing - belatedly - that's the point. I'm particularly thinking of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez here, and his focus on life in rural areas.

And that's just what life is like there sometimes. Sometimes you hear about the most outlandish shit going on in the big cities, and you're like "That makes no damned sense. Someone built a spotlight you can see from the moon? That's ridiculous." But that's real. It's just a thing that someone did.

And on the flip side, you can handle a boa constrictor a foot longer than the longest "known", but no one believes you because it was just in a backwater zoo and no one talked about it because of course they get big it's no big deal.

Basically, I'm realizing that the core of the magic realism genre is the disconnect about what is normal and mundane, and how a lot of remarkable things pass by unremarked because the people who witness them don't consider them special and are more concerned with their own lives.

[scarletandgreyexotics]

She's getting sooo yellow!

Koyala, 2020 Barranquilla Colombian BI/BCC

#koyala #barranquilla colombian #colombian boa #boa constrictor #snake #my noodles

[liasismorelia]

Colombian rainbow boa

#rainbow boa #colombian rainbowboa #snake #reptile #boa

[mychampagne-mybubbles]

Harry Styles • LOT LATAM • Bogotá • 27.11.2022

green dungarees & sparkling pink shirt • 8 years have gone by since last visit • very crowded pit: needed to take a break, fans encouraged to tale a step back, are you ok song • took a shot of aguardiente on stage • pride & Colombian flag • green boa.

#harry styles #lot 4.0 #lot latam #lot bogota #colombia

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

A while back I asked a boa FB group about my IMG motley boy’s kind of skinny head that looks more like a Candoia boa, not as plump as other boa constrictors. I was told it was actually A Thing that motley morph boas have less developed muscles in their heads? I was very surprised to learn this, I knew the super form was deadly and had weird issues but didn’t know just a normal motley looked any different? I actually found someone who also made the same comparison to Candoia boa’s funky heads. Do you think this will have a negative impact on his health? Does that change motley to an unethical morph?

My cringe boy’s fail skinny head:

Motley is really weird. The issues with super motley only show up in the Colombian strain, the Central American strain seems 100% issue-free. Super motley isn't even like normal lethal morphs in that the snakes just aren't viable, the issue is more that super motleys for some reason don't often thrive past the age of, like, two years old.

The motley morph is still new and poorly understood enough that I think only the super can confidently be said to be an unethical morph; most regular motleys seem to be 100% fine and live perfectly normal, healthy lives...except some of them (not even all of them) do have weirdly-shaped heads. Not quite sure what's up with that.

As for our friend Burnt Toast - I don't think you have anything to worry about at all! Obviously if you notice him showing any signs of jaw or mouth pain, take note of that, but even if his head muscles are a little weak the only tangible thing he'd really struggle with might be a weak strike force, which obviously won't affect his quality of life at all.

#not a rating #snake morphs #boa constrictors

[skull-hoarder]

A few mooore snakes I have to work

Three ball pythons (the third one is barely visible in the third photo above) and two unknown snakes, I was told that the reddish one is a Colombian rainbow boa and the dark one is a ball python but I think they both look strange, or what do you think?

#vulture culture #dead things #dead animal #bone processing #dead snake #dead herp #animal death

[herpsandbirds]

Central American Boa aka Northern Boa aka Colombian Boa (Boa imperator), family Boidae, Costa Rica

Formerly considered a subspecies of Boa constrictor.

photograph by @venegaskevin_97

#boa #boidae #snake #reptile #animals #nature #herpetology #central america

[automatonne]

My monster girls have received a couple design updates!

Patch notes:

• Dolly’s weird shoulder proportions have been fixed.

• Jade is now an emerald tree boa, and because it’s a South American snake, I decided to make her Colombian instead! ☺️

#automatonne beeps