- Also known as Guatemala Black Velvet, Guatemalan Red Veil, Mexican Black Velvet, Mexican Velvet, Painted Red Rump, Red Rumped Black Velvet, Red Veil, and Velvet Red Rump.
- This New World Terrestrial is from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico to northeastern Costa Rica.
- Usually very docile and slow-moving, but prone to occasional fits of hair flicking or skittishness.
- Adults can go for long periods without eating and specimens have been known to molt only every two years.
- Many well-acclimated captive individuals simply reside in the open, whether or not a shelter or deep substrate is provided. In the wild, B. vagans spends the majority of its life in burrows.
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- This New World Terrestrial is from the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico to northeastern Costa Rica.
- Usually very docile and slow-moving, but prone to occasional fits of hair flicking or skittishness.
- Adults can go for long periods without eating and specimens have been known to molt only every two years.
- Many well-acclimated captive individuals simply reside in the open, whether or not a shelter or deep substrate is provided. In the wild, B. vagans spends the majority of its life in burrows.
braa-kee-PEL-muh VA-gaanz