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Ball Python slithering among leaves and rocks in its exotic habitat. Photo by Daniel Marroquín via Unsplash. The ball python’s characteristic defensive posture is the result of millions of years of ...

In the wild, the ball python consumes small mammals and birds by constricting them to death. It has a long lifespan of 25 to 30 years. Again, scaleless mutations are bred for the pet trade.

Both acknowledge the scale of the problem. Pythons have eaten their way through generations of rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats, and birds. As their numbers grow, sightings of native species fall.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record amount of invasive Burmese pythons from the wilderness areas this year. They found the big females by tracking males hoping to mate with them.

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Python bivittatus, the giant Asian constrictors better known as the Burmese python was introduced decades ago through the exotic pet trade and now is firmly established as an apex predator. But a ...