I bought a 10 month old Royal female for my son in late May. Since then, I have become very interested in snakes, primarily the pythons and boas.
After reading up a bit I started to become interested in the differences and similarities between boas and pythons. From what I understand the pythons have an extra row of teeth, and additional bone in their skulls, and lay eggs as opposed to boas that give live birth.
I also read the 5 pits on each side of the python's snout are unique to pythons.
Do those pits make them more efficient at detection by heat?
Do boas have better vision than pythons?
I'm curious to know more about stuff like that and also a little more about royal pythons in the wild.
Most of what I read on B/P's is in regard to care and breeding and such.
Maybe the answer is a herpetology book, but if anybody wants to school a newbie in the similarities and differences between some of the less obvious characteristics of boas and pythons, I'd love to lear.
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