Death from above...Originally Posted by jmcrook
God I love this animal. Was looking around the cage floor thinking it was odd she wasn’t out hunting/stalking yet tonight... then I looked up!
Over all spends the majority of the time on the floor but when she is up on her shelf and perch she’s invariably stalking the enclosure floor. The Surinam however has yet to be observed stalking from an elevated area.
Just some interesting observations I thought I’d share.
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This is great boa. Absolute bulldozer's.
I have never seen a boa with as much confidence as BCO. If you opened the door of the enclosure opposite of where my big girl was she would put her boots on and come straight over to see what was going on. If I was spot cleaning she would put that massive head about two inches away and supervise all movements. I knew because of they way she was that there wasn't any risk but that didn't stop me from having misgivings about an 8 foot + boa with zero give-a-damns about me injecting herself in my space. -It didn't help knowing what she was capable of either...When tossing a 4 pound FT rabbit in there she would hit and wrap so hard that the wife has asked what happened in there from the other room?
The male is the same. Completely confident, comes straight to the door when you open it and both are perfectly calm as long as you let them check things out before touching them. I don't own a hook but neither of these two would respond to hook training. If you touched before they checked things out you were in for a wide open mouth and hiss that would send shivers. -There is no question in my mind that they would back it up but I always meet them on there terms and neither ever bit me as adults.
One cool sunny day I put my big girl in the back yard. The conditions were perfect for her to bask and she crawled out of some tree shade into the sun and stayed there for about 45 minutes. (She travels in a straight line -inch worm style) After she was warmed up and started heading off I went to go get her. She stopped forward motion and started twitching her tail. I decided I would touch the tail and see what happened. I bent over towards her tail and she didn't move except for the tail twitch until I touched her tail then she spun around with her mouth open like a shot! Had she really wanted a piece of me...she'd could have. After I stood up she followed me with her head but soon lost interest and I picked her up without incident.
There is a picture of the male in my gallery...my female was 'average' looking the male is gorgeous. I say 'was' because the female had a complication while gravid with her first litter. I waited 13 years to pair them and was more excited for that litter than the first Suriname litter.
Really cool snakes and yours is beautiful.
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