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| Name: |
Zaida
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Age: |
Two years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Hog Island Boa
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| Home: |
Rochester, New York, USA
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Zaida's
a beautiful snake with a great temperament. She's content to
coil up and sleep on my hands or in my pocket for hours on end. She
makes a great handling subject for those who are nervous about
handling snakes because of how tame she is. She also has an appetite
like no other.
Zaida is my first snake, I've had her for a year now, she's two years
old and 4 feet long. She's very independent like most snakes. But she
seems to be more affectionate than many are and has never tried to
bite. I open her cage at night, and I don't have to worry about her
escaping. If she feels like leaving the cage, she crawls out and comes
up to me sitting on the couch and she'll coil up in my lap and go to
sleep.
Snakes are responsive to humans' nervousness and as a result it makes
the snakes more nervous. Zaida actually responds to this while being
handled and seems to have an innate ability to calm people when
they're angry, upset, or just nervous. When being handled by somebody
new to snakes she will crawl more gently in their hands or she just
stops and coils up in their hands. As a result, she has helped many
people become more comfortable with snakes or overcome their fear of
snakes.
Hog Island boas are actually a good choice of snake for beginners or
fairly new snake keepers. The reason is because they stay smaller than
the other more common redtail boas found in pet stores and they
generally have the same kind of calm temperament as most redtail boas
and their care and environmental requirements aren't very hard to
maintain and they're actually very hardy snakes.
Hog Island boas are from an island off the coast of Honduras called
"Cayos de los Cochinos" which means "Island of the Pigs/Hogs" and
they're suspected to be extinct or very close to extinct on the island
as a result of predation of wild dogs brought to the island by human
hunters.
Zaida, like many Hog Island boas, has the ability to change colors.
During the daytime, she's a dark gray color. When late afternoon or
evening comes around, she turns orange. At night she turns a very pink
color. Then into late night or very early morning, she actually turns
white!
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