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Visual differences
Will someone please help me get my mind around the visual difference between boas and pythons?
Namely, the head of the animals. I need to just BUY a boa so I can have a good look at the two side by side. I know the difference in the animals, but can't tell them apart at a glance (which I'm worried will be embarrassing at some point).
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Yes.... Really....
Thank you for the information. I just remember earlier this year going to the herpetarium at the zoo, and staring at a ETB and a GTP and going "uhhhhh...." (they weren't labeled)
There are toooooooo many variations of boa/python pattern for me to EVER get them straight. People who can just look at one and call it immediately are beyond me. I was just wondering if there was a special trick I was not privy to.
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Re: Visual differences
Originally Posted by FalconPunch
Yes.... Really....
Thank you for the information. I just remember earlier this year going to the herpetarium at the zoo, and staring at a ETB and a GTP and going "uhhhhh...." (they weren't labeled)
There are toooooooo many variations of boa/python pattern for me to EVER get them straight. People who can just look at one and call it immediately are beyond me. I was just wondering if there was a special trick I was not privy to.
LOL not really, just lots of experience and research. I know the feeling. I used to never know the difference between a pastel and a spider, or any ball python morph in that case. It will all come together the more time you spend checking them out. I still can't tell the difference between a green tree python and an emerald tree boa.
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Re: Visual differences
Originally Posted by FalconPunch
SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS HARD FOR ME
ETB
GTP
If it weren't for that stripe on the boa, they'd be almost indistinguishable. And not all of them have such prominent striping.
LMAO! I posted my last post without seeing your response!! LOL Its 3am here (tired and @work) and I was trying to figure out how I conjured photo's without remembering!! hahahaha
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yeah for sure if you put the two in front of me I would have no idea. LOL
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Hahaha. Yeah I guess the solution here is obvious. I need to buy a lot more snakes. I'll go tell the wife.
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Re: Visual differences
Originally Posted by FalconPunch
Hahaha. Yeah I guess the solution here is obvious. I need to buy a lot more snakes. I'll go tell the wife.
good luck!
I walked into my apartment with a wine fridge. The conversation between me and my common law went a little like this:
"What is that?"
me: "A wine fridge."
"Why?"
me: "I'm going to turn it into an incubator."
"Why?"
me: "I wan't to breed my ball pythons..."
"No."
me: "I already bought the wine fridge.."
"I never told you it was okay."
me: "Ummm..."
"No."
me: "I'm going to anyways you might as well accept it."
"You might as well accept the fact that your about to be single."
And now the wine fridge is in the storage room. LOL
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There isn't really a cookie cutter image for boidae or pythonidae. Your best bet would be to just look at pictures and more pictures and more pictures and try not to think along the lines of "all pythons look like this" or "so this is what a boas look like".. Not all pythons are going to look similar, same for boas.. Keep looking at pictures one species at a time while committing to memory which family they belong to. Pay close attention to head shape, pattern and body type to help keep them separated as you go.
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