Black-headed pythons, like other python species, are non-venomous, and kill their prey by coiling around it to suffocate it, and then swallowing it whole. Snake cannibalism is not unheard of.

A massive 15-foot python became an unlikely toy for a group of children in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr. ... a video showed children in Australia using a dead black-headed python as a skipping rope.