Larger ball pythons typically eat larger mice or rats. Selecting prey for a ball python. As a general rule, you should select a rodent that is 1 to 1.25 times the size of the midsection of your snake.

Ball Pythons (Python regius ... They are opportunistic carnivores, eating a wide variety of prey. These snakes play a role beyond that of stealthy predators. As mesopredators, or mid-level ...

Once they grab their prey with their sharp teeth, they constrict it to suffocate it before swallowing it whole. In captivity, ball pythons are usually fed frozen or live rats or mice, and ...

A ball python from Leinwand’s lab ... stretchy while still producing the immense forces required to eat their prey. “We have shown that this organ size increase is what we call physiological ...