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She has red socks that go above her knees, with the same pattern as her hoodie, and yellow boots. | She has red socks that go above her knees, with the same pattern as her hoodie, and yellow boots. | ||
Like other Friends, she has traits of her animal on her otherwise human body - in her case, that's the tail of an amazon tree boa. | Like other Friends, she has traits of her animal on her otherwise human body - in her case, that's the tail of an amazon tree boa. | ||
|reallife=[[File:Corallus_hortulanus_real.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left| Amazon Tree Boa (Corallus | |reallife=[[File:Corallus_hortulanus_real.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left| Amazon Tree Boa (''Corallus hortulana'')]] | ||
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 | 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 hortulana''. It is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. No subspecies are currently recognized. | ||
This species has one of the widest ecological niches of any Amazonian snake. This arboreal snake inhabits the lower humid forest and flooded forest of the Amazonia as well as in gallery forests, and it can occur in disturbed areas and even in houses located next to forest patches. Amazon tree boas are also relatively common along rivers. [[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/203210/0 1]] | This species has one of the widest ecological niches of any Amazonian snake. This arboreal snake inhabits the lower humid forest and flooded forest of the Amazonia as well as in gallery forests, and it can occur in disturbed areas and even in houses located next to forest patches. Amazon tree boas are also relatively common along rivers. [[http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/203210/0 1]] | ||
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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]] | 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 | ''Corallus hortulana'' 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. | ||
Amazon tree boas have particularly large infrared pits, which allow them to sense heat well. They also have good eyesight that they use to hunt during the day. [[http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Corallus_hortulanus/ 3]] | Amazon tree boas have particularly large infrared pits, which allow them to sense heat well. They also have good eyesight that they use to hunt during the day. [[http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Corallus_hortulanus/ 3]] | ||