Ball python natural habitat?

For some time now I've been trying to find images or videos of what the environment is like for wild BPs, but all I seem to get are their habitat range on a map and pics and articles about how to emulate it in a captive setting. No actual footage of their homeland anywhere.

Search YouTube for “ball Python trapping in the wild” you should find a few videos with what you’re looking for.

I did find a good video. I gotta say it was rather surprising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOeR33ly4EE

Scrubland, but a lot greener and more wooded/forested and not as "semi-savannahy" as I expected. Certainly explains why they have higher humidity requires than say, a corn snake or other such temperate colubrids.

I knew about the termite mounds. "Locality vermiculite"? :rofl: Good video, thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

I knew about the termite mounds. "Locality vermiculite"? :rofl: Good video, thanks for sharing.

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Termite mounds and "scrubland" was all I knew beforehand. It's probably because of zoo games I used to play as a kid, but I've always pictured scrub as "just a step above desert" in terms of dryness. Never knew they could be so green in some places.

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Originally Posted by Snagrio

Termite mounds and "scrubland" was all I knew beforehand. It's probably because of zoo games I used to play as a kid, but I've always pictured scrub as "just a step above desert" in terms of dryness. Never knew they could be so green in some places.

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I agree, it's hard to understand their need for humidity just by generalizing about "scrubland". And we still don't know much about the actual soil either- that makes a huge difference too, as to how much moisture is retained.

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Originally Posted by Snagrio

I did find a good video. I gotta say it was rather surprising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOeR33ly4EE

Scrubland, but a lot greener and more wooded/forested and not as "semi-savannahy" as I expected. Certainly explains why they have higher humidity requires than say, a corn snake or other such temperate colubrids.

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I was most definitely surprised when I watched the videos too! For some reason my brain always pictured something very different. It was quite an eye-opener. I’ll have to check out that video, thanks for posting it.

https://youtu.be/kxoWFOkgAC4

My local reptile shop does a massive amount of videos on various species such as biomes and diversity in nature if you want good solid info I would suggest watxhing the video above


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