{"id":37446,"date":"2024-08-28T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37446"},"modified":"2024-08-27T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:47:14","slug":"just-once-part-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/08\/just-once-part-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 caninus<\/em>,) and was an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences<\/a> in Raleigh. Still might be.<\/p>\n

Or it might not, even if it’s still there. Four years after I took this image, a new species was introduced based on geographic and morphological differences, the Amazon Basin emerald tree boa (Corallus batesii<\/em>.) I’m not sure which this is, and I certainly don’t have a full-body shot for better comparison, but based on a characteristic listed by Wikipedia<\/a>, C. batesii<\/em> has smaller snout scales – and this one appears to have smaller scales than one of the images<\/a> of the emerald tree boa they show. So I might have never featured the emerald tree boa, only the Amazon Basin emerald tree boa.<\/p>\n

Which means that C. caninus<\/em> is one of quite a few (at least half a dozen) species that I have not yet featured within a post. I mean, we’ve seen this image once before (well, it’s been more than that for me,) but what have we actually seen? Are we looking at an emerald tree boa, or simply a collection of colored dots that bears some resemblance to one if you account for two-dimensionality and monitor calibration? Are you, the reader, even there? These questions will likely remain unanswered, and are too philosophical to bother with anyway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7807,7806,3996,3995,3997],"class_list":["post-37446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-amazon-basin-emerald-tree-boa","tag-corallus-batesii","tag-corallus-caninus","tag-emerald-tree-boa","tag-nc-museum-of-natural-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}