A beautiful, though high-strung, snake found down the river from Iquitos, Peru a couple years ago.
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Oxyrhopus formosus
swiss
Jan 20, 2006 09:36 PM
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BryanD
Dec 21, 2006 04:59 PM
Interesting... the one we found in Peru was so docile that I assumed they must be all be like that.
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WW
Dec 22, 2006 03:11 AM
>>Interesting... the one we found in Peru was so docile that I assumed they must be all be like that.
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Agreed - I have yet to see an Oxyrhopus try to bite anyone - and I have caught a fair few. Reluctance to bite seems to be a general attribute of the group that Oxyrhopus belongs to, the Pseudoboini, which also include Clelia, Pseudoboa, Siphlophis, Phimophis and a few others.
Cheers,
WW
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