Well...all feedback can't be good. I have to correct you on a few things. Please take this as constrictive (pun-typo intended lol) criticism
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What's the difference between a Python and a Boa?
Pythons are from Africa. Boas are from South America.
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This is extremely inaccurate. Boa CONSTRICTORS come from South America, Mexico, and Central America and surrounding islands. But there are also species of "boas" in the US, Madagascar, Africa, Soloman Islands...and many other little islands scattered around the world. Can't forget Candoia, Sand boas, Rosy boas, Rubber boas and non corallus-tree boas.
African rock and ball pythons come from Africa. There are many other python species found all over and around Asia and Australia and their respective neighboring islands.
For the most part, boas give live birth and pythons lay eggs. However, there is always one whacked out oddball screwing up every rule. What was once called a calibar python (Calabaria Reinhardtii) has since been reclassified thanks to DNA, as a close relative of sand boas....Which means we have an egg laying boa.
Ventricle isn't what snakes poop through. ventricle is a chamber of the heart or could be used to describe any cavity within an internal organ. Vent works. Cloaca works...I'd even accept poop shoot but not ventricle
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Can Boas recognize a person, like a dog or cat does?
Actually, yes they can. If they know a certain scent and have associated that scent with safety or care, they will recognize a person very quickly and become very friendly toward that person. If you have a Boa that is aggressive, an effective trick to use is to put a shirt in their tank to associate that scent with a safe feeling. If you have a boa for more than a few months and regularly handle it, it will remember who you are and grow to love you, if you take good care of it.
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This is all based on opinion and not backed by ANY scientific study or data. It's obvious that a snake has the ability to "settle down" and adapt to captivity enough to become less likely to bite out of anxiety and/or in most cases die from stress. But trying to tack human emotion onto a reptile is just wrong. If reptiles could possibly be domesticated, you wouldn't have to cage them. They don't "love" you. They aren't capible of any such emotion. Their primative brains control ONE function. That function is survival. Every action any reptile makes including in many cases "inaction" is 100% based on survival. They seek shelter, water and food, basking or cooling spots to thermoregulate..and of course a mate certain times of the year. If they aren't looking for one of those 5 things, they are asleep so as not to waste energy....all survival....exception: attempting to escape..which in their little minds is also a survival tactic. They don't go out and play. They don't care about any other thing unless it can eat or kill them or they can eat it. IF you want to accuratly test your shirt in the cage theory, don't try it with a freaking boa that's bound to calm down in under a week anyway if it ever even was aggressive. Try it with a amazon, red tail green ratsnake or some other snappy species and see if your shirt makes them love you
That whole "what's the difference in
BCI and
BCC" stuff always makes me cringe. It always sounds like it is assumed that all boa constrictors are either one or the other. What about BCA, BCO, BCO and BCO again (yes there are 3 BCOs..., BCL, BCS etc etc etc. There are many more besides those two. Also, if you want a caresheet to be taken serious, spell Colombia right
and do a little more research on the range. You left out Central America completely...
Just please mention that aside from
BCI and
BCC, there are many other subspecies of boa constrictors and that NONE of the others are accidently being shipped to petstores. If someone didn't tell them, they were buying something different, it's a
BCI from either Colombia or Centeral America...fat chance it's anything else.
