Boa Constrictors

Boa Constrictor

Adaptations

By Elizabeth Liu

Table of contents

Introduction

Habitat

Diagram

Food

Body

Babies

Protection

Reptiles

Introduction

Who is ready to learn about boa constrictors? Read to find out about the life of a boa constrictor.

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Boa constrictors live in hot rainforests in South America.Boa constrictors often Wait quietly in trees bushes and leaves. Boa constrictors bask to warm up in the sun.

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Don’t mind me.

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Hiding in a tree lies a boa constrictor

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Hiding in leaves is the boa constrictor.

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Today is a good day to have some mouse for food.

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Boa constrictors can eat small animals such as birds, bats and rats. They also eat small monkeys . Some can eat big animals such as deer and ocelots. When the boa constrictor finds its prey it wraps its body around the prey while its teeth hold the prey.boa constrictors are carnivores. that means they only eat meat.

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Yummmmm

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A boa constrictor wrapping its body around its prey while its teeth bite it.

A boa constrictor’s scales.

Boa constrictors can grow to 8 feet(2.4 meters) long. they are very heavy and long snakes. Boa constrictors have scales to keep them from drying out in dry places.

Whole body of a boa constrictor.

Boa constrictors use camouflage to hide from predators and prey.

When boa constrictors are young they have predators such as birds and wild pigs and some other snakes. When they grow up they just have a few enemies.

A boa constrictor camouflaging.

Boa constrictors mate once a year. Females give off special scents to attract males. Female boa constrictors do not lay eggs like most reptiles. The young grow inside the female for 6 to 10 months. They give birth to live young.

A boa constrictor’s baby.

You might eat me now but don’t even try to eat me when I grow! .

A boa constrictor diagram.

Jaws that open very wide.

Powerful muscles squeeze prey to suffocate it.

Eye

Prey is suffocated then swallowed whole.

Scales are cream tan brown and black with broken patterns.

What is a reptile?

Reptiles are all ectothermic. That means cold blooded and cold blooded means if it is cold outside reptiles will be cold and they can’t make their own body heat. Reptiles are vertebrates.That means they have a back bone. Most reptiles have scales. And most reptiles hatch from eggs.