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This Banded Snail-eating Snake (<i>Sibon annulatus</i>) has evolved enlarged vertebral scales to aid in arboreal movement. What's even more amazing is the evolution of specialized teeth on the lower jaw that are used for extracting its snail prey from the shell. How specialized! The tropics never seem to amaze me.
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This Banded Snail-eating Snake (Sibon annulatus) has evolved enlarged vertebral scales to aid in arboreal movement. What's even more amazing is the evolution of specialized teeth on the lower jaw that are used for extracting its snail prey from the shell. How specialized! The tropics never seem to amaze me.

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  • Morning coffee with a friend. A very young Central American Coral Snake (<i>Micrurus nigrocinctus "mosquitensis"</i>). These snakes possess a very potent neurotoxin that is used to quickly immobilize their prey, which consists primarily of other snakes, with a side dish of caecilians, eels, and other elongated animals.
  • This Banded Snail-eating Snake (<i>Sibon annulatus</i>) has evolved enlarged vertebral scales to aid in arboreal movement. What's even more amazing is the evolution of specialized teeth on the lower jaw that are used for extracting its snail prey from the shell. How specialized! The tropics never seem to amaze me.
  • A large male Central American Coral Snake (<i>Micrurus mosquitensis</I>) from the Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve
  • Allen's Coral Snake (<i>Micrurus alleni</i>) from the Cano Palma Biological Station near Tortuguero, Costa Rica
  • <i>Dipsas temporalis</i> from Parque Nacional Omar Torrijos, El Cope, Panama
  • <i>Dipsas articulata</i> This thirst snake, also called snail suckers, eats mainly soft bodied prey- snails slugs, frog eggs... anything gooey
  • <i>Dipsas articulata</i> This thirst snake, also called snail suckers, eats mainly soft bodied prey- snails slugs, frog eggs... anything gooey
  • This juvenile Halloween snake (<i>Urotheca euryzona</i>) is from the Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve in the foothills of nothern Costa Rica.
  • Green Parrot Snake (<i>Leptophis ahaetulla</i>) Cano Palma Biological Station, Costa Rica
  • <i>Scolecophis atrocinctus</i> Cangreja National Park, Costa Rica
  • <i>Scolecophis atrocinctus</i> Cangreja National Park, Costa Rica
  • <i>Scolecophis atrocinctus</i> Cangreja National Park, Costa Rica
  • Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper)
  • Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper)
  • Side-striped Palm Pitviper (<i>Bothriechis lateralis</i>) A highland species of viper from the montane rainforest of Costa Rica
  • Side-striped Palm Pitviper (<i>Bothriechis lateralis</i>) A highland species of viper from the montane rainforest of Costa Rica
  • Brown blunt-headed vine snake (<i>Imantodes cenchoa</i>), juvenile
  • Brown blunt-headed vine snake (<i>Imantodes cenchoa</i>), juvenile
  • A sight to see indeed! A four foot Costa Rican black milk snake (<i>Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae</i>) climbing into the canopy. These are heavy bodied and round snakes, not the kind of build you'd expect to see scaling a bare trunk, but hey, it's the rainforest. The bark of the tree was fissured and flaky; it kept breaking off under the snake's weight.
  • Calico Snake (<i>Oxyrhopus petolarius</i>) This specimen displays typical juvenile coloration Finca La Escondida, Costa Rica
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