Gold-ringed Cat Snake
Boiga dendrophila
Reptilia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 12-20 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Southeast Asia
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Venom
- Status
- Rare
About
The Gold-ringed Cat Snake is a sleek, rear-fanged arboreal snake from Southeast Asian mangroves and rainforests, instantly recognisable by its jet-black body banded with vivid yellow rings. It hunts at night using distinctly cat-like vertical-slit pupils, preying on lizards, frogs, and small birds.
Life cycle
- 1.hatchlingA miniature snake emerges from the egg or from its mother (live-bearers), already venomous or strong-coiled in some species.
- 2.juvenileA juvenile sheds its skin, grows quickly, and hunts smaller prey than the adults.
- 3.adultFully grown at adult length and pattern.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Boiga
- Species
- Boiga dendrophila