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.. getting hard to find real ones..
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Interesting boas with a lot of colors and patterns.. especially if you look close... these were born in 2006.
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Thanks!
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com
"Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus
Well that's the real deal having been fortunate enough to collect a few of those in and around Cancun. Also they are NOT very common in situ and you can hunt your butt off and find one or two in a week of hard core collecting. To me they look similar to Cay Caulker Boas of which I studied for several years in Belize. They also are NOT abundant and difficult to find.....Nice looking snakes as always...
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com
>>Well that's the real deal having been fortunate enough to collect a few of those in and around Cancun. Also they are NOT very common in situ and you can hunt your butt off and find one or two in a week of hard core collecting. To me they look similar to Cay Caulker Boas of which I studied for several years in Belize. They also are NOT abundant and difficult to find.....Nice looking snakes as always...
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>>Tom Crutchfield
>>www.tomcrutchfield.com
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It's interesting you mention the similarities with the Caulker cay boas.. I see some of that, most especially the ventrals.. I suppose Caulker cay boas might be some sort of a-xanthic (or nearly so) Yucatan Boa..?
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Thanks for your comments.
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Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles.com
www.riobravoreptiles.com
"Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus
You know almost the entire population of Cay Caulker Boas live around the dump. It's a huge landfill connected to the sea filled with garbage and American Crocodiles. The crocs use the fill areas as nesting sites and the thousands of Ctenosaura similis that live there live in burrows dug on the banks of the landfill. Boas there as adults and juvies feed almost exclusively on the Spiny Iguanas with an occasional bird thrown in. I've never seen a rodent of any kind on Cay Caulker. The Cay lies about 40-50 miles off the coast of Belize and is totally isolated with almost the entire population living in one spot so inbreeding is assured. It stands to reason that color morphs should pop out sometimes because of the total lack of new genetic material. I've always thought of them as being very much like CanCun Boas. Now Crawl Cay Boas are another matter. I'll save that story for another time.....
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Tom Crutchfield
www.tomcrutchfield.com
What an incredible post!!!
Thank you Gus and thank you Tom for such wonderful info.
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Charles Koutris
I know I was just saying that about Tom on another Post!! And
Gus is Gus... Just awesome!
Damn you have some cool boas Gus!!!
Take care,
Kevin
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