This defense behavior is typically employed in lieu of biting, which makes this species easy for humans to handle and has contributed to their popularity as a pet.
This species is known for its defense strategy that involves coiling into a tight ball when threatened, with its head and neck tucked away in the middle.
It prefers grasslands, savannas, and sparsely wooded areas. The ball python is native to west Sub Saharan Africa from Senegal, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria through Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic to Sudan and Uganda.
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Males tend to have larger spurs, and sex is best determined by manual eversion of the male hemipenes or inserting a probe into the cloaca to check the presence of an inverted hemipenis. During copulation, males use these spurs for gripping females. īoth sexes have pelvic spurs on both sides of the vent. Males typically measure eight to ten subcaudal scales, and females typically measure two to four subcaudal scales. It reaches a maximum adult length of 182 cm (6 ft 0 in). It is a stocky snake with a relatively small head and smooth scales. Its white or cream belly is scattered with black markings. The ball python is black, or albino and dark brown with light brown blotches on the back and sides.
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