"The Rubber Boa has retained the club-like tail of its Erycine ancestors. Its blunt tail is used as a decoy to deter predators from attacking its head. As a nest raider, it seeks out dens of wild mice and shrews, and while it is eating the baby mammals at one end, the mother attacks the blunt tail that resembles a head.
The Rubber Boa is seldom encountered, not because it is rare, but because it is slow, docile, and mostly nocturnal. It is also thought to be crepuscular, meaning it is active at dusk and dawn."
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Very cool! are those things constrictors?
"The Rubber Boa has retained the club-like tail of its Erycine ancestors. Its blunt tail is used as a decoy to deter predators from attacking its head. As a nest raider, it seeks out dens of wild mice and shrews, and while it is eating the baby mammals at one end, the mother attacks the blunt tail that resembles a head.
The Rubber Boa is seldom encountered, not because it is rare, but because it is slow, docile, and mostly nocturnal. It is also thought to be crepuscular, meaning it is active at dusk and dawn."
Guess not, but it is in the boa family
actually on further investigation it sounds like they are. Not much info on these guys
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