2006-12-04 15:49:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Boa Constrictors are carnivores mainly hunting at night. Boas kill by constricting (squeezing) the prey until it can no longer breathe, the reason being named as constrictor. Sometimes they drown the prey. As a snake, they swallow the prey whole, head first. The boa's top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments, which let the snake swallow animals wider than itself. Snakes don't chew their food, they digest it with very strong acids in the snake's stomach.
The boa constrictor eats a wide variety of food - young snakes, mice, small birds, lizards, and frogs. As the snake grows, the size of its prey increases. Adults will eat monkeys, capybaras, agoutis, caimans, and wild pigs.
The boa is a good swimmer and spends a lot of time near and in rivers. It waits for any prey which may come near the water to drink. Once a victim has been overpowered, it is swallowed whole.
Since the boa is cold-blooded and slow moving, it does not require a great amount of food. After eating large prey, such as a wild pig, the snake will not eat for a week or more.Boas can stay for many days without eating. After eating a large animal, the snake needs no food for a long time, and rests for weeks. ☺
2006-12-04 16:55:55 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carnivores
2006-12-04 16:53:09 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carnivores. Snakes are one of the few true carnivores in the world as they only eat other animals.
2006-12-04 15:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Silas 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boas are both constrictors and carnivores.
2006-12-04 15:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carnivores
They have their name from the fact that they catch their prey by rolling themselves around the victim and squeezing it to death.
They would hardly have to do that if they were herbivores!
by the way, also poisonous snakes are purely carnivores.
2006-12-05 00:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by saehli 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Herbivore because i'm doing animal care and function been mind educated to assert that and on the grounds that i ought to somewhat fortuitously sit down there eating twenty carrots over a 1st Baron Verulam baguette any day Rock on!
2016-11-30 03:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All snakes are carnivores.
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2006-12-04 16:20:27 · answer #7 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
carnivore
2006-12-04 19:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by narayan23333 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
carnivores
2006-12-05 06:21:59 · answer #9 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
carnivores
2006-12-05 00:41:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋