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Boas Tennessee

Here are 9 points to educate you on Boas.
1. Local Companies
2. What is a Boa?
3. Where do Boas live?
4. Tasting the Air?
5. Featured National Company

1. Local Companies

Pet Paradise
(931) 433-2576
209 College St E
Fayetteville, TN
Carousel Pets Inc
(423) 587-9173
2550 E Morris Blvd
Morristown, TN
Country Feathers
(731) 663-0705
689 Jay Bird Ln
Gadsden, TN
Fish Tails
(423) 892-7080
8008 E Brainerd Rd
Chattanooga, TN
Cat Shoppe and Dog Store
(615) 297-7877
2824 Bransford Ave
Nashville, TN
Village Pets
(423) 929-7010
711 W Market St
Johnson City, TN
Pet Barn the
(901) 878-1307
25520 Highway 57 E
Grand Junction, TN
Cavbird's Golden Nest
(615) 646-2129
9496 Highway 96
Franklin, TN
Feathers Scales & Wagging Tails
(931) 684-8041
200 Lane Pkwy
Shelbyville, TN
Pass Pets
(865) 539-0443
Knoxville, TN


2. What is a Boa?

There are at least 35 different species of boa.

The boas are very like another group of snakes called the pythons. Pythons and boas belong to the same scientific family, called the Boidae, which sounds like “boy-day”.

Like boas, pythons are powerful snakes that kill there victims by squeezing. Both groups of snakes include real giants. But most pythons live in Asia and Africa and lay eggs. Most boas, on the other hand, Live in the Americas and give birth to live young.

Like all snakes, boas have very long, thin bodies. But most boas are much thicker and muscular than other snakes. The exceptions are tree boas, which are quite slim. Boas have broad, flat heads, too. Unlike many other snakes, they have definite necks.

3. Where do Boas live?

Most boas live in the hot, steamy rain forests of Central and South America. The heat suits them, and there is plenty for them to eat. Many boas live and hunt on the forest floor. Many boas are also good swimmers, and some live all the time in the water of rivers, lakes, or swamps. Others live up in the trees, where they ambush birds and other tree living animals. A handful of boa species live in the forests outside the Americas. Three live in the forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. Three more live on the island of Madagascar, off southern Africa.

Some boas don’t live in the forests at all, but in the dry places where there is plenty of sand. There are sand boas like this in the dry regions of Africa and Central Asia. They burrow into the sand buy day and come out to hunt at night.

North America also has two kinds of boa of its very own: the rosy boa in the southwest deserts and the rubber boa in the cool conifer forests of the America west and northwest.

4. Tasting the Air?

Boas find their prey with their acute senses of taste and smell. Indeed, a boa live in a world of smells and tastes. A large section of its brain is devoted just to detecting and identifying them. The boa’s brain is linked by nerves to a pair of nostrils and to a cavity in the top of the snakes mouth called the Jacobson’s organ.

5. Featured National Company

Missouri Botanical Garden

314-577-0254
4344 Shaw Boulevard
St. Louis, MO
http://www.mobot.org/

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