When preying on baby mice, the boa will elevate its head-like tail and make false strikes to distract the mother mouse. Tiny baby boas make their first appearance of the year in August and September.

The fact that a boa species lives in our region is odd enough. After all, rubber boas are related to pythons and anacondas. But the oddness doesn’t stop with its place of residence.

A photo of a rarely seen snake found wrapped around a small tree along the Clackamas River Trail is creating quite a stir online. Biologists identified the snake as a rubber boa. Rubber boas are ...

A five year field and laboratory study of the southern rubber boa (SRB) in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California provided data on the diet, antagonists, and predators of this state ...

Rubber and rosy boas are smaller than their Central and South American cousins, usually growing no longer than 3 or 4 feet (Boa constrictor can reach up to 13 feet) and only as wide around as a ...

Soon after I read the Field Guide about the rubber boa [Sept. 6], I ran into one. My buddy John Balbino and I were hiking back from Garnett Lake when John decided to stop to fly-fish. A brown ...