Herpetofauna: One Life's List

Boa constrictor constrictor
Peruvian Red-Tailed Boa

Loreto Province, Peru
January 11th, 2011

"OK, who put the Boa in the Dart Frog Tree?" Dale wanted to know.  As it turned out, nobody was playing a prank on the rest of us - the snake had found its own way overnight into the small tree in the middle of the field station, and home to a small colony of Ranitomeya ventrimaculata.