I know what the temperature readings are that they have recorded. However temperatures in the city are quite different from temperatures in the rain forest. You have to take those temperatures with a grain of salt.

I was talking to a guy I knew who went to Peru a lot about 20 years ago. Mainly to get away from his wife and see his girlfriend. No he was not a Governor. LOL He happened to also have some interest in Boas and that's how I knew him. He said it was 100 degrees in Iquitos where he visited every day. I asked him to take a thermometer with him and do a survey of temperatures and I bet him it wasn't anywhere near that hot in the rain forest.

When he returned he reported this; When it was in the mid 90's in the city, he went on a little trip into the forest. He said the temperature was 82 degrees on the forest floor and 85 degrees 6 feet off the ground. Temperatures are very much relative to the natural vegetation around.

So there is just a little bit of anecdotal info to chew on. Basically the smaller the city or town you get readings from in areas of rain forest, the lower those high temperatures are due to the cooling effect of the forest. It's like taking a temperature in the middle of a Walmart parking lot in August at noon in Miami and checking it in the middle of a large park at the same time in Miami. I'll bet someone has done a study of exactly that where you could have much better and more accurate real temperatures of areas where Boas live and thrive.
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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
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