Talk:Boa constrictor

Renaming of the article to Boa Constrictor rather than Red-tailed Boa

Thanks to whoever was working from IP 70.109.20.219 for renaming this article to "Boa constrictor" - this is the name almost everyone uses for this snake and the other "pet-trade" name always troubled me. Good work! John Hill 23:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Where's natural history?

This article seems to be written entirely from the perspective of snake keepers (with its reference to zoos and snakes being "imported", presumably to the United States). Can anyone supply the straight zoological information about this snake (size, distribution, behaviour, endangered status, etc.)? Myopic Bookworm (talk) 10:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 10:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone think that maybe it might be a good idea to describe what "constricting" is? I read this entire article, and found no referance to the fact that the snake squeezes it's prey... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.130.9 (talk) 04:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

That information is too general for this article. See Boidae#Feeding. --Jwinius (talk) 13:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Improvements to the article

Hi, I am going to be improving this article, as I feel that it is missing a lot of information on Boa constrictor. I will be increasing the information on description, behaviours, reproduction, habitat, and a few other bits. I hope that it is to everybody's standards. --XPS420 (talk) 14:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment

Hi, I was wondering if this page can be reassessed. As it has been massively improved since the last assessment. Thanks. XPS420 (talk) 13:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Contradiction

Two sentences in the "Coloring" section (which also don't seem to belong there) seem to contradict each other, and neither are cited:

Boa constrictors also have two functional lungs, a smaller (non-functional) left and enlarged (functional) right lung to better fit their elongated shape, unlike many colubrid snakes which have completely lost the left lung.

Should they both be removed? Joshf (talk) 18:24, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Video

Hope you like the video I've added to the diet/feeding section

It's my own boa, who is currently about 7ft long, and still growing. Pesky (talk …stalk!) 14:50, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

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Boa Imperator is a species

"Boa Imperator" is no longer recognized as a subspecies of Boa Constrictor, as such, there should probably be significantly less mention of it on this page. I have been editing out the parts that I've seen that clearly mislabel the species, but there is a lot of work to be done. If you notice an incorrect naming (like B. c. Imperator) please take it down. There seem to be several images of what appear to be Central and South American boa imperator species, these should be replaced by images of Boa Constrictor or its subspecies. — Mstearnsa 20:34, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Boa constrictors can be pets

Wiki Education assignment: Principles of Biology 2

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