Ball pythons are carnivores, primarily preying on small mammals and sometimes birds. In the wild, their diet consists mainly of African soft-furred rats, shrews, gerbils, and occasionally striped ...

But pythons do this time and again—in the wild, the Burmese python and the ball python scarcely encounter food and can go up to two years without eating. So, they eat as much as possible when they ...

Ball pythons are constrictors that coil around their prey and kill by suffocation. A ball python’s diet typically consists of small mammals and birds. Snakes are illegal to transport and possess ...