{"id":2453,"date":"2025-12-25T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:10:11","slug":"amazon-tree-boa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/international-field-herping\/amazon-tree-boa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Tree Boa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/international-field-herping\/amazon-tree-boa\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1464\">Amazon Tree Boa<\/a>, spotted by flashlight on a boat in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/peru\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"210\">Peru<\/a>. Unlike most snakes, their eyes shine orange-red in the light, and can be seen even high in trees. Birds and amphibians&#8217; eyes also glow a similar color, though, so there are a lot of false calls of &#8220;snake!&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corallus-hortulanus-_O4A4424-2-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon Tree Boa, spotted by flashlight on a boat in Peru. Unlike most snakes, their eyes shine orange-red in the light, and can be seen even high in trees. Birds and amphibians&#8217; eyes also glow a similar color, though, so there are a lot of false calls of &#8220;snake!&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[172,238,239,1,135],"tags":[210,211,230,647],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boidae","category-corallus","category-hortulanus","category-international-field-herping","category-snakes","tag-peru","tag-amazon","tag-night","tag-amazon-tree-boa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}