Marty’s photo of the day #4258: I know some followers of my posts cringe whenever I post snakes or other animals that don’t fit into the “warm and cuddly” category. But I’m a college speaker and author largely because I’m a wildlife advocate. All animals have value, and that includes snakes. Snakes, for instance, are […]
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Rainbow boa baby
Marty’s photo of the day #3989: My rainbow boas, Adam and Eve, are both seven-feet-long and twenty-one years old. This is one of their babies from ten years ago. Adam and Eve now live in separate terrariums, because Adam goes into Catholic priest mode whenever he’s with Eve, and they’ve had quite enough babies for […]
A mess of boas
Marty’s photo of the day #3223: I took this photo roughly ten years ago. Do you know how difficult it is to hold a mess of baby rainbow boas in one hand, a camera in the other, focus, and do it all while not getting bit? This was one of Eve’s last litters before we […]
Pon farr for snakes
Marty’s photo of the day #2807: When I acquired Adam and Eve, back in 2001, I selected a male and a female, because rainbow boas were supposedly difficult to breed in captivity. Needless to say, Adam and Eve didn’t read the same snake books that I did, and put that rumor to shame. This is […]
Snake Art
Marty’s photo of the day #2649: Snake Art! When I got my first photo program, many years ago, I experimented with this photo I took of Eve, my rainbow boa. Changing the colors produced some stunning, though obviously unnatural, results.
Snake education
Marty’s photo of the day #2583: I was flipping through my photo files this morning, trying to decide what to post, when I came across this shot. Several years ago, I helped with an after school program at the Stevensville, Montana library. The kids are holding Eve, my seven-foot-long rainbow boa. Most were touching a […]
Mother and child . . . rainbow boas
Marty’s photo of the day #2378: I was going through my photos this morning and came across this “mother and child” photo from several years ago. These are my rainbow boas Eve and Miami Steve Van Snake. At the time, Eve was about seven-feet-long and Miami Steve was about two-feet-long. Now, Eve is perhaps an […]
Eve digests her deer
Marty’s photo of the day #2205: On September 11, 2001, Eve arrived, via Federal Express, from a breeder in Ohio. All air traffic had been halted on that day, but somehow she made it through. She was so small, she fit into a fruit cup. Now at more than seven-feet-long, she is about a foot […]