Appearance
It can reach 1 m to 1.25 m in total length . Females can reach much larger sizes than males.Naming
The specific name, ''guibei'', is in honor of French herpetologist Jean Guibé.Status
This species has been described as common to abundant.Behavior
This snake is mostly nocturnal, but is sometimes out basking during the day. It spends most of its time on the ground, but it will climb trees at times.The snake performs defensive behaviors when threatened, such as "brusque" thrashing, staying still or rushing to escape, compressing or inflating its body, coiling, hiding its head, or producing a cloacal discharge.Habitat
Common habitat includes forest edges. It can be found out in the open. The snake is sometimes seen near human activity and habitation, for example, on farms and in backyards.Reproduction
The female lays eggs year-round, but male and female reproductive activity slows around the end of the rainy season. Clutch sizes range from about 3 to 20, with an average size of about 11. Longer females lay more eggs. Eggs are laid in nest sites such as cavities in rock piles and abandoned rabbit burrows. The female abandons the eggs once they are laid.Food
Its diet includes rodents, lizards, and other small animals. Rodent prey items include rats , the hairy-tailed bolo mouse , the house mouse , the small vesper mouse , the delicate vesper mouse , and hocicudos . It will eat the lizard ''Tropidurus itambere'' and it has been observed taking white-tipped dove nestlings . Lizards it will swallow alive but rodents it often constricts first.References:
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