I'm still not sure, though. As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any field work done on this (wouldn't that be a wicked fun job? Walk through the forest and count the ball pythons.) I was researching it a little bit yesterday and from what I found it seemed as though ball pythons are listed as 'not concerned' which means there's plenty of them, but that figure is based on how many are around in general, not how many are in the natural habitat. I read in two or three places that they're 'vulnerable' in the wild and that freaked me out a bit and lead me to posting here. I'll see if I can find the places that said they were vulnerable.