Februari 18, 2017
what we have here is a emerald tree boa, alsoknown as an etb for short sometimes. this is khana, that's her name. she's my big female.she's part of the boid family, as you can see, she is a boa, hence the name emeraldtree boa. she's arboreal, meaning she does dwell in trees, so she's going to spend mostof her time, actually most of her life if not all of it is spent in the trees, theyvery rarely come out. basically they drink rain water that gets caught in the leavesand things like that. they're a high humidity tropical snake. one of the interesting thingsto note about etb's is if you get close, you can see the very pronounced heat pits on herface. see all those little indents? they look like pockets on her face. those are all heatpits they use to sense heat. she's a constrictor,
so she does crush her prey. you can see herflicking her tongue around there as she gets a good smell. also you can take a look at,if she'll let us, the...right under the face there. see that little line of flesh on thelower chin. that's actually an overlapping piece of skin. that's one of the ways they'reable to stretch their mouths out to eat large prey. there's actually...it's a skin that'sindented in, so there's actually more skin there. so their bottom jaw can stretch out.their jaws do unhinge, and the jaw isn't attached in the front, it's divided. so the whole...it'sactually two jaw pieces that all stretches out so that they can swallow large prey. andthat's true for all snakes. this is a ...she's a very well-behaved snake. many people willtell you that emerald tree boas are a extremely
aggressive species. i have not found thatso far in my experience with them. i own three of them now and they're all as sweet as puppydogs, her being the nicest. and, they're just truly, truly remarkable, beautiful animals.
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