Amazon Tree Boa - Corallus hortulanus - Pictures!

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[mpgt]

Classic ATB "S" pose


Over 4' long. No other details. I love this guy though.
They are tremendously variable in color, very rewarding to own, and notoriously nippy. In my experience though, their ill will is usually directed towards other people or moving objects, once you are holding them. Just don't let your other hand...or your nose become the moving target they long for.

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[sgrdolphin]

Corallus hortulanus cookii or Cook's Tree Boa.




This is a wild caught individual if she really is a Corallus hortulanus cookii then she would be from St Vincent Island which is north of the Grenadines that are northeast off the coast of Venezuela. Most likely a female but not probed. Full size adult at just over 5 feet. I don't have any paper work to prove local but her coloration and smaller size is consistent with the Corallus hortulanus cookii description.

[JuliusSqueezer]

Unfortunately there hasn't been any export from St Vincent in many many years. There are very few actual cooks tree boas in the US are not available in the pet trade. Amazon tree boas are heavy in the pet trade and the dealers that label them as Cooks aren't necessarily lying, they are just misinformed. A lot of the exporters from South America are mislabeling them as that to pick up orders from pet stores that are weary of snappy amazons. There's no real way to tell them apart. The scale counts overlap. All cooks are garden phase but certainly not all garden phase are cooks. If it didn't come from St Vincent, then it's not a Cooks. If it did come from St Vincent, someone broke the law and risked some serious fines and jail time over a snake that wholesales for 5-6 bucks.

Here's a couple of mine...

Neonate Male


Adult Female - funky orange and pink heavily patterned