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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.
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Re: Ball python natural habitat?
Search YouTube for “ball Python trapping in the wild” you should find a few videos with what you’re looking for.
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I did find a good video. I gotta say it was rather surprising.
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 knew about the termite mounds. "Locality vermiculite"? Good video, thanks for sharing.
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Re: Ball python natural habitat?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
I knew about the termite mounds. "Locality vermiculite"? Good video, thanks for sharing.
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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Re: Ball python natural habitat?
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.
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.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Re: Ball python natural habitat?
Originally Posted by Snagrio
I did find a good video. I gotta say it was rather surprising.
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 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.
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Re: Ball python natural habitat?
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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