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If one was observing Brb's in their natural environment where would they be found? Near marshy places? Under decaying foliage? Under rocks? Where?

I'm probably just dumb, but I can't understand how their markings camoflage them and what those circles/cresents do.

Can someone enlighten me?

It seems to me from watching my possibly gravid snake that in her homeland she would be a nice meal for a predator. Upside down, sideways..for days.

Might be aposematic coloration.
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In my experience herping in Venezuelan forest,, it is really difficult to find really orange or those beatiful red animals that you find here in collection, it is more commun to find the dark red coloration, In forest ground are a lot of dry leaf and humidity making it kind of red, the only Rainbow I found myself in the forest was hiding under a big piece of wood, but the easist way to find them is on very dark night, it it raining a lot of better and you will find them on the road, that is the best way find snakes

Linda,
. BRBs would be hiding during the day in tight dark humid hiding places. Perhaps inside hollow logs or under vegeatation on the jungle floor or even below ground under root systems or inside burrows which have been dug out by other animals. They commonly live in or near heavily forested areas. I have never hunted snakes in the range of BRBs. In Panama the Colombian Rainbows probably originally lived primarily in jungle areas but seem to be most plentiful near disturbed edges of the jungle. The only time to hunt them was at night along roads or trails through jungle and broken jungle/agricultural areas. I hunted pretty hard day and night in Panama and never found a Rainbow Boa looking in the typical places where many snakes are found hiding. Many animals are color blind. Most of the animals which do see colors in the daylight have limited color vision in the dark. We humans and many other mammals primarily use cone cells for day vision and rod cells for night vision. The cone cells in some animals provide good daytime color vision. The rod cells have very limited color differentiating ability. I think more importantly than color we should be trying to figure out the purpose of the highlighted crescents along the sides of BRBs. I would guess that at night a moving BRB presents a confusing flashing pattern as the crescents move through areas of zero light where they are invisible to nearly all animals and move through areas of low light where many animals can see them.
Jeff

>>If one was observing Brb's in their natural environment where would they be found? Near marshy places? Under decaying foliage? Under rocks? Where?
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>>I'm probably just dumb, but I can't understand how their markings camoflage them and what those circles/cresents do.
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>>Can someone enlighten me?
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>>It seems to me from watching my possibly gravid snake that in her homeland she would be a nice meal for a predator. Upside down, sideways..for days.

With the sides lightening up...well, maybe not.

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