Quote Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729 View Post
I apologize if I did not state that I heard this as a "story" about the murder. No idea if its true or not. All I was told was that their collector got killed by some local so they had collection issues last year (2011). I also don't know who is consuming them for meat but they are being consumed and the larger the animal the more cash it is bringing in, meaning alot of the large girls aren't around.
Maybe it's just me but I would bet that the highest price paid for a ball python would be to the pet trade and not for consumption. The US is absolutely not the only importer of ball pythons. Canada and Europe are also huge importers of them.