{"id":4914,"date":"2010-12-09T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:49:21","slug":"a-climbing-boa-constrictor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/amphibians-and-reptiles\/a-climbing-boa-constrictor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Climbing Boa Constrictor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you imagine a snake you may not think of looking up, but many species, like the Boa Constrictor (<em>Boa constrictor<\/em>), are expert climbers. No matter how long, thin, or complex,\u00a0 the vine or branch is, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?s=snakes\">snakes<\/a> can move their bodies in different ways to climb <strong>WAYY<\/strong> up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4897\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4897  \" title=\"boa_constrictor_tree\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/boa_constrictor_tree.jpg\" alt=\"boa constrictor tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/boa_constrictor_tree.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/boa_constrictor_tree-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/boa_constrictor_tree-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/213\/24\/i\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/213\/24\/i<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4752\" style=\"border: 0px solid;\" title=\"ER-LOGO-FROG\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ER-LOGO-FROG-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"77\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"..\/..\/games\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"..\/?cat=3\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"..\/..\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you imagine a snake you may not think of looking up&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/content\/wildwire\/boa_constrictor_tree-236x160.jpg\" alt=\"boa constrictor tree\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[666,931],"tags":[301,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-4914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amphibians-and-reptiles","8":"category-all","9":"tag-climbing","10":"tag-snakes"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}