Amazon Tree Boa: Difference between revisions

|appearance=Amazon Tree Boa has brown hair tied in two long braids. She has a red, black-orange hoodie with the patterns off her animal species. Her hood is similar to other serpentine Friends', with the sole exception being its closed eyes.

She has a white shirt under her body that transitions into a skirt at the bottom - said skirt covers an additional underskirt, which is yellow.

She has red socks that go above her knees, with the same pattern as her hoodie, and yellow boots.

The Amazon tree boa's common names are common tree boa, garden tree boa, macabrel, and Cook's tree boa, while its scientific name is Corallus hortulanus. It is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. No subspecies are currently recognized.

The Amazon tree boa can bear many different colors and patterns. it can be brown-gray, all red or all yellow. Its livery can have several patterns, from big stains to small ones through the lines etc. Some are even without patterns. The Amazonian boa has long been misclassified and it is for this reason that today many people are still confused. The Amazon tree boa was formerly known as Corallus enydris, and there is still documentation referring to them as such. The worst confusion remains between the Amazon tree boa and the cook boa. For a long time, the cook boa was considered a subspecies of the Amazon tree boa. Even today both are often confused. [[http://www.reptilia-forum.com/t626-corallus-hortulanus 2]]

Amazon tree boas have been reported to eat birds, bats, frogs, rodents, lizards, and marsupials. These observations suggest that Corallus hortulanus has a broad diet of mainly vertebrate prey. Amazon tree boas hunt at night using their infrared sensitivity or during the day using vision. They are typically ambush hunters, sitting on a branch with the front part of their body hanging in an S-shaped curve from the branch. They can strike at prey that are a surprising distance from themselves. Prey are often pushed off the tree branch as they are struck, in which cases the snake will gather the body in several of its coils. [[http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Corallus_hortulanus/ 3]]

Corallus hortulanus is a notoriously aggressive species. When approached, it bites and makes an s-coil. When manipulated, it may form into a ball, constrict and rotate its body. However these snakes tend to give some warning of being inclined to bite, and will usually give fairly gentle bites (which can still draw blood) unless they are given reason to give a full strike. The Amazon tree boa (like other arboreal snakes) isn't a good pet for those afraid of frequent bites, which can be quite painful if delivered by an adult specimen.

Localized threats may exist (such as deforestation, and persecution because the species looks like a viper), but on a range-wide scale, no major threats are known. The species requires trees to persist, so complete deforestation will eliminate the species. [[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/203210/0 1]]