“I couldn’t tell the head from the tail. It looked like it had two heads.” My friend Robert went on to describe how the snake coiled up into a ball but poked its head into the air as if it were trying ...

It can take years of hiking the same trails or of living in the same neighborhood to see the secretive rubber boa. This native boa comes out at night on a slow-motion hunt for small rodents and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of hikers got quite the surprise when they stumbled across a rubber boa. “He wasn’t threatening me,” said Karen Meier. Meier and several others were hiking along the Clackamas ...

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 snake ...

If I say “boa,” you probably picture the tropical rain forests of South America, where the poster boy of the Boidae family, Boa constrictor, slithers through the brush. Your mind probably doesn’t leap ...

ZooMontana Director Jeff Ewelt shows a rubber boa snake to second graders from Powell, Wyoming, during a talk about the rainforest at the zoo on Friday.