As a new ball python owner you’ll need to know what to feed your snake, how often to feed it, and what to do if it won’t eat. Ball Python Diet Their feeding needs vary depending on their size ...

Feeding ball pythons is relatively straightforward: 1. Prey Size: Choose prey items that are appropriate for the snake’s size. Young ball pythons eat small rodents, while adults consume larger ones.

Leslie Leinwand, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and study coauthor first began looking at how pythons adapted to deal with these huge feedings back in 2011. 2 She and her ...

Researchers fed pythons who had fasted for 28 days a meal of 25% of their body weight and compared them to snakes who had not been fed. They discovered that as the well-fed snakes’ hearts grew, ...