While first featured here seven years (and two weeks) ago in another of my numbered weekly posts, the original slide is older than that, dating from 2005. It is a captive shot of course, since I’ve never been to South America where such reptiles hail from, but believe me, I’d be very interested in seeing a place where snakes hail. This is an emerald tree boa (Corallus
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Sunday slide 33
This is an emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus) – or at least, it was when this was taken back in 2005. In 2009, herpetologists suggested that there was a separate species from a different geographic area, so this one might have changed taxon then when I wasn’t there to witness it.
I would certainly like to be getting such pics in “the wild,” but as yet I have not traveled