Boa Constrictor Décor & Environmental Enrichment Ideas ... | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Some people argue that boas are strictly terrestrial and do not need climbing branches or vines. However, anyone who has seen a young boa climbing everything within reach or observed boas in the wild know that this is dead wrong. Boas are semi-arboreal and greatly appreciate the use of climbing branches to fill the upper reaches of their enclosure. In fact, they have been documented eating arboreal monkeys[1] in their native habitat. And according to VPI, a boa’s “laterally compressed body and strongly prehensile tail are physical evidence of arboreal tendencies.”

Young boas demonstrate more arboreal tendencies than adults, so you may want to offer more vines and thin branches in a juvenile enclosure. They seem to prefer smaller, thinner objects that they can securely wrap their bodies around. My young B. imperator seems to particularly relish any opportunity to wrap its lit...