Emerald Tree Boa

Emerald Tree Boas are beautiful creatures.  Their bright green coloring with white color splashes helps them to camouflage or blend in with leaves and sunlight in their rainforest home.  They are arboreal.  This means they are perfectly designed for life in the trees.

Physical Description

Emerald Tree Boas can grow to more than 6 feet in length.  They have beautiful bright green scales and white scale patches covering their bodies.  Their strong tail wraps around branches to hold them in place when the strike for prey.  This grabbing tail is called a prehensile tail.  They also have very long teeth to help them hold on to their prey.

Family Life

Mother Emerald Tree Boas have 3 to 15 young each year.  The babies are born with red, yellow or orange coloring and change to green after about a year.  Like all snakes, Emerald Tree Boas live alone.

Diet

Birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians