Someone lucky enough to spot this snake in northern Wyoming along a path or rock outcropping may think it’s fake and that some kid tossed it out there as a prank.

But the northern rubber boa with its stubby tail, stubby head and rubber-like appearance wasn’t smuggled into the country from China and sold at a dollar store.

It’s a real-deal Wyoming constrictor, Casper College biology instructor Charlotte Snoberger told a packed Werner Wildlife Museum lecture room in Casper this past week.

These aren’t the huge, man-eating boa constrictors featured in Hollywood movies, she said.

“They are not 10 feet long, but they are still a boa. They really do look like a rubber snake,” she said. “The first one of these I saw I thought was a rubber snake.”

Snoberger, a herpetologist, worked eight year

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