I’ve seen a lot of these, but haven’t taken many photographs yet. There is a pair that hang out around the station and make a lot of noise when I or another animal approaches them.
Daily Archives: 27 May 2009
Rainbow or Sunbeam Boa
Loxocemus bicolor is a new species and family for me, although the family, Loxocemidae, is monotypic. It’s a beautiful snake that reflects a rainbow of colors in the sunlight. Additionally, it’s large, strong, and semi-fosorial.
Neotropical rattlesnake
After capturing this rattlesnake, Boa fed it a mouse, which it recently released as a brown, moist mush that appears to have permanently stained the bucket it was in with a horrible stench. The snake is a juvenile, and didn’t even have any rattle segments. It is the only one we’ve seen so far.
