Wow, this is a really nice video. Thanks for sharing, Gio! It looks like this channel has a couple other nice snake videos, too.
This is the kind of snake content I'm really looking for nowadays. It's nice to see how our snakes' wild cousins go about their day and interact with their environment. One thing that really stuck out to me was the difference in the BIs' locomotion as they navigated different ground cover -- in particular, that large BI kind of "stepping" over that brush in its opening shot. (Also, it it just me, or was that Dumeril's sidewinding in that overhead shot?). All of those different types of locomotion work and build different muscle groups.
For people who are really in to naturalistic cage design (like me), it's also very nice to see what habitats wild boas are actually using. iNaturalist has also been a bit helpful on this front.
Thinking about how we can use this knowledge to better our keeping of snakes -- I think switching up substrates or having patches or mixes of different substrates in an enclosure would be a good way to replicate natural terrain's variation and get boas to engage different muscle groups over ground. Lori Torrini has a video or two out about this, I believe. Offering different types of perching and climbing structure would also help -- ie. a mix of shelves and branches, perches made of different materials, etc.. AbsoluteApril's cat trees are a great idea for a good climbing challenge outside of the enclosure! Personally, I'd love to be able to get a good-sized faux tree or one of those large parrot perching trees for my boas to climb while they're out. Those tend to cost an arm and a leg, though, so they'll probably be getting a laundry drying rack instead.
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