Boa!

[PhilinYuma]

I was just downloading my recent "tour" pix. Just to show that my recent remarks about snakes doesn't mean that I don't like them, here I am in my high desert gear, holding a 17 foot boa.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_usuzJk1N-Kk/TUJhLBZ0FyI/AAAAAAAADiE/iFLrAVu4Whk/s512/P1060399.JPG[/mediaFerasom, ain't he?

 

[hibiscusmile]

That is one strange scarf Phil! :blink:

 

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17 foot?

 

[PeterF]

We're gonna need a bigger boa!

 

[geckoboy3]

It's wrapped around some live prey, looks tasty!

 

[PhilinYuma]

17 foot?

Yeah, I wondered about that too, Leann, but when I mentioned that to Joe, he said that it was probably because he needed feeding "before he got his full size back." I also thought that the snake looked more like an anaconda than a boa, but Joe said that boas look that way in northern Arizona. He took the snake off to feed it, and when he brought it back, it looked like this:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_usuzJk1N-Kk/TULgcWyXIrI/AAAAAAAADi8/skoBm_Ku62E/s512/P1060439.JPG

This seemed much closer to 17'; that's my son, David, helping me hold him, but now he looked more like a reticulated python than a boa. Still, Joe says that he always looks like that after feeding, and what do I know about snakes?

 

[hibiscusmile]

Oh my! enough scarf there for ..... to much of a lady to say :tt2:

 

[GreenOasis]

LOL! YOu're so funny, Phil! You duped me into clicking on those pics with your antics! I know YOU already know what they are, but for the noob, let me just say that the first one is a baby green anaconda and the second is a reticulated python.

You're such a goof!

 

[warpdrive]

yeah, I was going to reply to this when it was first posted, but I knew that it had to be a goof of some sort. I'm glad I waited till now so I can see how it grew after feeding...

Harry

 

[lancaster1313]

I thought that anacondas were a kind of boa. :huh:

 

[PhilinYuma]

I thought that anacondas were a kind of boa. :huh:

They are. The genus Eunectes belongs to the Boinae, unless someone has changed things around, again.