here is the email i recieved from Gus:
Quote:
There's a fair explanation of this at my website.. in general everybody is
right..
1) BCC are usually the bigger snakes (though I've seen plenty of 8-9 foot
BCI, including from places like Costa Rica and N. Central America).. and
common Colombians grow fast and get large.
2) Both subspecies are found in Colombia with the BCC restricted to areas
in the EAST and somewhat to the south of the country.
3) Because there often isn't a lot of difference in the way these things
look in the areas where they intergrade naturally we have to rely on things
like scale-counts to tell the difference on many of the Colombian BCC... in
fact many people have Colombian boas which would come out as BCC if you used
only scale-counts, and they don't know it. But in some few areas real
BCC-looking redtails are found in Colombia, I've seen them and they have
many of the looks that we expect from redtails from further east. We see
very few of those here.
Hope this helps..
Gus
A. Rentfro
RioBravoReptiles@rgv.rr.com
http://www.riobravoreptiles.com
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