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Colombian rainbow boa, Uraba, Colombia
We love night tours in the jungle, they are some of our favorite type of hikes. Yet we tread carefully. We don't go crawling through tall grass at night (to avoid ticks and snakes). We don't lean on trees, and we avoid the most dense bushes to not walk into all kinds of unexpected things.
Not so much for the Band Brothers, two brothers that guided us in Uraba, who took a no fear approach to discovering nature. On this awesome night tour, William pulled this glorious rainbow boa from the dense bushes.
This shot shows most of the body from this constrictor. You can see the rainbow iridescence the species is named after.
Epicrates maurus is a species of non-venomous constrictor, in the family Boinae, found in Amazon region of South America. Common name is Colombian rainbow boa. While a terrestrial species, with its moderate size and weight it has a semi-arboreal life. Rainbow boas are known for their attractive iridescent sheen on their scales in the sunlight.
