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Boas are non-venomous constrictors. They live mostly in the Americas, with a few species in Madagascar and the Pacific. They squeeze their prey in their coils. Unlike pythons, most give birth to live young. Many hunt by ambush or climb trees. Many are good swimmers.
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Boidae
Boa constrictor · Least concern
'BCC' is its name in the pet trade, where the boa constrictor is a staple of private collections: it tells it apart from Boa imperator, the 'BCI'. It usually measures 1 to 4 m, but the largest documented dry skin, kept in a Munich museum, measures 4.45 m without the head.
Boidae
Acrantophis dumerili · Least concern
Dumeril's boa lives only in Madagascar, in the semi-arid forests of the west and southwest. Named after the French herpetologist André Marie Constant Duméril, it usually grows to about 2 m, with a record of 259 cm, and its newborns already measure 30 to 46 cm.
Photo: TimVickers (Public domain)
Boidae
Corallus caninus · Least concern
For its size, the emerald tree boa likely has larger front teeth than any other non-venomous snake. Its green body with white 'lightning bolts' is a case of convergent evolution: it looks strikingly like the green tree python, a very distant relative.
Photo: Jyothis (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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