Ball Python
Python regius is a nonvenomous python species found in Africa. This is the smallest of the African pythons and is popular in the pet trade. No subspecies are currently recognized.They are also known as royal pythons or ball pythons.The name ball python refers to the animal's tendency to curl into a ball when stressed or frightened.The name royal python (from the Latin "regius") is based in part on the story that Cleopatra supposedly wore the snake around her wrist.
Geographic range
Found in Africa from Senegal, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Niger and Nigeria through Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic to Sudan and Uganda. No type locality was given in the original description.
Feeding
In the wild, the diet consists mostly of small mammals, such as African soft-furred rats, shrews and striped mice. Younger individuals have also been known to feed on birds. Pythons that are imported from the wild tend to be picky eaters and may not respond to food as well as captive-bred pythons, which usually do well on domestic rats and mice, either live, pre-killed, or frozen-thawed. The size of the prey item given to a python should be equivalent to or slightly larger than the width of the largest part of their body. This python is known for being a picky eater and may not eat for months, particularly during the winter breeding season.
Although people think ball python is discussting or dangerous,I think ball python is very charm.
they aren't noisy and their color from many morphs is fantastic such as these.
Silver Bullet(Super CinnamonXPastel) Ball Python
Blue Eyed Leucistic Ball Python
Butter Spider Ball Python
Lemon Blast(PastelXPinstripe) Ball Python
King Pin(Lesser/Butter/Pinstripe) Ball Python
Phantom Potion (PhantomXMojave) Ball Python
Lavender Albino Spider Ball Python
