x2! I'm loving this thread.
I would think Ball pythons living in a tropical rainforest would be really different than the balls living in the savannah/scrub lands of ghana/benin/togo. If you asked me an hour ago if ball pythons could live in a swampy rainforest i would have said no. Limited access to rodent dens, RI's due to high humidity, scale rot from being kept too wet.