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Rubber boas are one of two members of the mainly tropical boa family native to the United States. It is a small, inoffensive snake that lives mainly in burrows and under leaf litter. This one -- the biggest I've ever seen at about two feet long -- had just finished shedding when I found it basking in morning sun at the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab in Mono County, California. It was amazingly soft, smooth, and gentle. |
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