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Boa Constrictors
By Ben
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boa
• Boa’s are not poisonous but just as deadly.• They use their flicking tongue and its scales to
pick up the scent of prey.• These snakes live in hot tropical places and
can be found on the ground and in trees.• The biggest one found was about 5.5 metres
long. • They are nocturnal
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boa
• They mostly eat rats and birds and mice.• Boas live in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica,
Panama, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil.
• They are afraid of eagles, jaguars and crocodiles.
• Boa constrictors are green, yellow, black, brown.
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boa
• Boas squeeze their prey before eating them
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boa
• Boa’s can be 1 meter to 4 meters long• The live in deserts, wet tropical forests, open
savanna, and fields.• Boas are carnivores (meat-eaters).• Female gives birth to live babies. They can
deliver up to 60 babies at a time.
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boa
• Boas can have 60 babies in one go• Young boa constrictors are born with instinct
to hunt. They are left on their own from the moment of birth
• Boa constrictor can survive from 20 to 30 years in the wild