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Southern Rubber Boa Research Paper

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Southern rubber boas are smooth, shiny and chocolate-brown snakes. Their colorations vary from olive-green to reddish, or tan. They have blunt tails that resembles a head and it allows them to grasp or hold objects so it can enable them to climb shrubs and small trees.

additionally their tails allows them to deflect attacks while feeding on their prey. Rubber boas are known for preying on deer mice, voles, shrews, etc. but some of their recent behavior shows that they will eat lizards, baby birds, baby bats and to a lesser extent snake eggs. They are excellent summers and are harmless to human, In fact when they are picked up they will curl up into a ball hiding its head and fooling its attackers with their head shaped

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