Re: ball python and lizzards
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Originally Posted by beachvibesbyeff
You guys act like you didn't know this?
They are known to eat amphibians, lizards, other snakes, birds and small mammals in the wild. They do not eat mice or rats in the wild.
A quote from the Barker's most recent book:
"...studies of the diet of ball pythons in nature have revealed that the species consumes a wide variety of birds and mammals, and that ball pythons are more catholic in their tastes than most python species."
No mention of lizards or other snakes. While I would not doubt that a very hungery wild bp would eat a lizard or snake if it had to....it is NOT a common part of their diet. And to say that they don't eat mice or rats in the wild borders on ridiculous. While they may not be scarfing down the white lab mice and rats that we serve up here....they find plenty of other species of both rats and mice in their natural ranges.
Re: ball python and lizzards
gerbils and african soft fur rats are rodents that ball pythons eat in the wild...
i would check where you got your info from, cause who knows what else they told you.
