Ball pythons

A ball python has a flat head and boxy snout. The body of a ball python has large spots of brown outlined in white and black. The spots on young ball pythons are yellow and green outlined in white and black. A healthy ball python will be round and firm. Ball pythongs eat small mice of larger mice as they get bigger but it depends on the size of the snake in general the smaller the snake usually you would feed it the small rodents. Most ball by thong eat live rodents but that's in the wild. Some in captivity still like to eat live but they also like to eat frozen in captivity because they don't develop the basic insintinct to attack its prey. In Europe, the ball python is referred to as the royal python. In the United States the name ball python was given to them because they curl themselves into a ball with their head in the center when they are nervous or upset. Captive ball pythons can live up to 50 years, but the average lifespan is approximately 30 years. In the wild, due to predators, their life span is much shorter. The eggs of this snake are very big and there are usually between 4 and 6 of them in a clutch. The female will place them in a burrow underground. They will emerge about 60 days later.