Meet the American Boas
If I say “ feather boa , ” you probably fancy the tropical rain forests of South America , where the poster male child of theBoidaefamily , Boa constrictor , slithers through the brush . Your mind belike does n’t leap to Los Angeles County or Colorado ’s desert , but you ’ll come up boas there , too . The United States really has two native boa species , the natural rubber boa ( Charina bottae ) and the rosy boa ( Lichanura trivirgata ) , above ....