Appearance
The Emerald Green Tree Boa has a heart shaped head. They have small white zig-zags going horizontally down their backs. They are a darker green in the winter and more of a lime ish green in the spring and summer. The have a long body with a diameter of about 1 to 2.5 inches. The have thick green scales that lay over each other. They have pointed tails. They have blurry vision and rely on mostly on their sense of touch and smell
The plant Bromelia is known for its brightly colored flowers. The Bromelia/Bromeliad gives off a potent odor and sweet smell. The plant has razor sharp leaves resembling its close relative the pineapple. The Bromelia is home to many small rodents and the emerald green tree boa. Bromelia have open air roots. The roots are a whitish gray color. The flowers are usually closed unless there is enough water in the air.
Locomotion
Emerald Green Tree Boas slither to get from point A to point B. They do not migrate due to them already living in a climate that fits their needs. They tend to leave their homes if there is a lack of food. they originally are found in the amazon and other parts of south america. They have been unnaturally to Florida, Louisiana, Georgia.
The Plant Bromelia has started to spread across America commonly found in homes. Though they naturally are found in the amazon rain forest. As most should know plants do not have legs. Thus they depend on rodents and natural weather changes to move their seed from one area to another. They do not bloom all year so their seeds cannot be spread year round.
Diet
The Emerald Green tree boa feeds on small rodents such as rats, lizards and small birds. The animal does not have a venomous bite and relies only on its strength....
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...s mutualism due to gaining from the relationship and causing success in the plant’s life as well. The animal also unknowingly helps small bugs and ticks travel from one area to another without being harmed due to the ticks being interested in mammals in a different location. This relationship is called commensalism due to one being used without losing or gaining from the situation while the other sees profit from the relationship.
The Bromelia plant gains from the Emerald Green Tree Boa because the snake eats many known predators to it while the plant supplies a home for the snake. This is a mutualistic relationship due to both parties seeing success. Many small bugs such as caterpillars feed on the plant causing the plants to wither and die. This is considered parasitism due to one gaining from the relation while the other sees the bad end of the relationship.
Many variations and species of plants can be found all around the world and in different habitats. These variations and characteristics are due to their adaptations to the natural habitat surrounding them. In three of many climatic zones, the arid, tropical and temperate zone, plants that vary greatly from each other are found in these locations. In this experiment, we’ll be observing the connection between the adaptations of the plants to their environment at the Fullerton Arboretum. The arboretum is a space containing numerous plants from different environments. The plants are carefully looked after and organized into their specific habitat. Therefore, we’ll be able to take a look at the plants within multiple
Exotic snakes such as the python, boa constrictors and anaconda as well as the Monitor and Tegu lizard are taking over central and southern Florida and pose an extreme threat to the eco- system and to the families that are residing there.
1. Alden, Peter, Rich Cech, and Gil Nelson. 1998. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida. New York: Knopf.
As a result of these factors, the flora has adapted to these conditions in a variety of ways including their shape, leaf type, root system, and color. One of the most prominent adapt...
The Oncilla commonly lives in high elevated areas of the jungle within South and Central America (Petersen). In Brazil, the Oncilla has been found in subtropical forest highlands, plantation fields, deforested areas and eucalyptus monoculture. They have a preference for the montane cloud forest. The Oncilla is an obligated carnivore, which means that they are required to eat meat in order to survive. In their habitat they have all of the resources for survival. They eat small mammals, lizards, birds, invertebrates and sometimes tree frogs. The places the Oncilla live tend to be very warm and humid. The Oncilla does not migrate to any other place.
Symbiosis is a term that means “living together”. Symbiotic relationships can be mutualistic (both species benefit), commensalism (one species benefits, the other neither benefits nor suffers to any extent) or parasitic (one species associates with another causing harm to the host organism).
The communities of various native plants have been significantly minimized as a result of ...
Barred owls tend to favor dense forests with large trees for nesting and allow for a relatively open under story. The owls use this under story to stalk and catch their prey from high above. The availability of perch sites and large trees for nesting have been found to be the most important factors in habitat selection. The Barred Owl can live in a variety of habitats including urban areas, swamps, oak savannas, marshes, and forests located next to fields that provide prey animals (Dark, Gutierrez, and Gordon, 1998).
There are several interactions that happen between species. They include competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, and disease. Each one of these can affect organisms either in a positive or negative way. These are all important for organisms to evolve and become the best fit of their species. Without these interactions species would never change and would die out very easily when faced with tough environments.
They have things like tree snakes and various types of birds. For example, the tree snake adapted to living in the trees to get their food. It can eat things like the elusive flying lizard, also known as the Draco.
Taxonomically, Atropa belladona is classified in the Solanaceae, a family that also includes the common potato, tobacco and chile pepper. This species probably came originally from southern Europe and Asia, but is today naturalized in many parts of the world. The plant itself stands between two and six feet in height. Its green berries change to a shiny purplish-black as the plant matures. Some people say the berry is sweet and others say its bitter tasting, but all agree that the size is like the common cherry. To many, the entire plant has a very nauseating odor. The plant also has a thick root, a five-lobed calyx, leaves that are simple, ovate and alternate, and solitary bell shaped flowers.
dark metallic blue or green, with lighter colored bellies. Coho feed off of plankton and
States and southern Canada. In the west, the species was found from Mexico to California.
Probably the most serious predators of baboons are the large carnivores such as cheetahs and leopards. Baboons live mostly on the ground but sleep in such places as trees or cliffs. “Throughout Africa baboons achieve some protection from nocturnal predators by sleeping in tall trees or on cliffs (Smuts 19). Usually each troop sleeps on a different cliff, but occasionally two troops will share a single sleeping site.