GRAPHIC PICTURES: Ball Python Cannibalism.

It kinda looks like the one who's eating is shedding at the same time . What are the chances of a transported / in shed / Royal eating ANYTHING let alone another Royal !?!

while it is OBVIOUSLY a bad idea to house them together...This IS a rare thing to happen.

What really bothers me about the pictures, is the "live" Ball python of this group. It is not skinny. It is EMACIATED. Nothing but bones with skin draped over it. What the ???

There was obviously more to the story. Perhaps those poor babies were so extremely starved that the movement of another "body" set off that one's feeding response. And once he started...

So to me this all brings up another point, who in the world would bring that to a show ? Who would even think of selling ones like this ? Exposing such emaciated and sickly animals to the stress of transporting and displaying.

To me this is a example of poor husbandry, poor decisions and a very poor outcome.