Woma python/Black head. How are hybrids possible?

[Lucas339]

the easy answer is when the hormones are kicking, they are kicking! when people hybridize in captivity, they use special measures to over come this. there are ways of tricking snakes.

also, this hybrid has been thought to naturally occur in the wild. there have been a few speciemens caught in the wild that look like they hybrid.

[Skiploder]

Just because they CAN eat each other, doesn't mean they will.

the easy answer is when the hormones are kicking, they are kicking!

also, this hybrid has been thought to naturally occur in the wild. there have been a few speciemens caught in the wild that look like they hybrid.

My Womas go off their food at breeding time

These three quotes answer the OP's question.

1. Just because a snake is ophiophagus doesn't mean it will eat a potential mate.

2. Aspidites hybrids are thought to occur in the wild.

3. Horny womas and blackheads will forgo food until they start feeling less randy.

All of my male australian pythons (antaresia and aspidites) are off feed and have been slammed up against the ends of their drawers/cages since the middle of September. The females are all ripening. I could put those males in with garden hoses and they'd try to hump them right about now.

[MarkS]

One of the earliest inter genus hybrids I heard about were the jungle corns. (Corn Snake X California King Snake) Which is also a prey item and it's predator procreating. ANY snake can be a reptile eater given the right conditions, I've had corn snakes eat each other right after hatching while still in the incubator and they're not noted for being snake eaters. I guess it all depends on circumstances and whether or not they feel like feeding or breeding.

[Mike Schultz]

Bait and switch! Here's a super ball example:

Put a male ball python in with a female ball python during breeding season.

Switch out the female ball with a blood

Trick the male ball into mating with the blood... now it's not necessarily as easy as 1, 2, 3 but that is how you attempt it at least.

Now if only it was this easy in real life, I'd gladly offer myself up to help less fortunate-looking men than myself!