![]() Only humans eat them and use them for their skin to make purses, clothes, and jewelry. Tarantulas eat the boa constrictor’s babies after they are born. “Don't touch my babies you crazy TARANTULAS!!” Sorry, Mama Boa talking. Boas have heat sensors to know if any animal is going to eat their babies. Have you ever seen a boa constrictor get eaten by anything? I’m about to tell you who!! Well, I can’t tell you much because guess what, the boa constrictor doesn’t have that many predators! A predator is something that eats the boa constrictor. You learned about the boa’s life cycle, aren’t you happy? If you’re not then kiss a ….boa constrictor. They mate each year (mama and dad), then get babies! That’s kind of gross. Shedding their skins helps them grow bigger. Mostly they shed their skins in the summer. Wow! That really is a short time compared to humans. The boas grow up to be 40 years old! The oldest boa in the world lived up to 40 years and 4 months. Okay, get this, 64 babies are born at a time! How cool is that! Mother boas are solitary (they like to live alone) and they live with their babies for practically one minute once they’re born, then the babies go off on their own. Now we are going to talk about the life cycle of the boa constrictor! It’s ovo-viviparous, which means the babies come out of an egg and then when the babies are ready to emerge they come out of the mama boa constrictor. Well hello there! It’s really great to see you. I love boa constrictors, do you?! If you don’t they’re going to bite you! What about you? If you live in those places watch out for BOAS! You probably love those places! My favorite place is the rainforest. So hot! They are also found in the islands in the Caribbean (a sandy place so they can cool off), deserts, and the rainforest! Wow! They are both terrestrial, which means they live on ground, and arboreal, which means they also live in trees. Well, let me tell ya where boas live, get out your notepad and listen up! Boas sometimes live in grassy or tropical (warm places), like in Argentina, Central America and Mexico. Let me tell you, the boa constrictor is nocturnal (means they sleep during the day and hunt at night). If you see their fangs, run as fast as you can.īoas are also awesome swimmers. The venom starts at the venom gland and gets compressed (squeezed) out by the compressor muscle, travels through the venom canal, and out its fangs. Crossbands are patterns, kind of like squiggly lines, on their head.īoas have venom (poison) in their fangs, or sharp teeth. Some boas are a tan or a pinkish color, with dark crossbands on their head. Baby boa constrictors are 20 in long, but adult snakes are 13 feet long! Do you know an animal that is long and can bite people? Well let me tell you, one is a BOA CONSTRICTOR!! Well, I’m going to tell you some facts about them.īoas are very long snakes. ![]()
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