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Oh and to answer this..."You are right an anaconda is a boa (which is exactly my point) so why can't we keep them in the same set up?" Depending on the species of boa, you can but the word "boa" does not necessarily mean 2 different species of boa share the same exact needs. "Boas" aren't even all from the same continent. You would be hard pressed to keep an Emerald tree boa alive in a setup suitable for a Dumeril's boa for example. You also can't keep a rainbow boa in the same set up you would keep a Kenyan sand boa...That is unless you like the smell of rotten death.
It's wise to consider the words and writings of scientists. It's foolish to blindly accept every word as fact. Speaking of Emerald tree boas, It's still widely regurgitated even amongst renowned scientists that they evolved their large teeth for snatching birds from mid flight. Huh? It doesn't take a PHD to figure out what poppycock that is. It merely takes a day or two of observation and a wee bit of common sense to realize that a nocturnal animal won't have many opportunities at flying birds while it's awake and hunting. If it does, it's likely going to be prey for an owl as opposed to a predator to a parrot or something. They eat lizards mostly as babies and move on to arboreal rice rats as adults. Birds make up hardly a percent of any given emerald's diet....if that.
Bats are a boas favorite food? really? How does that work out for a mostly ground dwelling animal? Carpet pythons and Scrub pythons maybe since the flying foxes tend to be an easy snatch for them. South American boas are far more likely to encounter any of the gazillion small earth bound mammals than they are a bat. I'm sure bats are suitable meals, but ...I have a hard time believing that they are a very common food item for boas. Even when the boas do climb up in the trees, the trees down there are crawling with arboreal rice rats and nesting birds.
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