The name of this forum should be changed

[Dutti]

For what it's worth ...I see where you are coming from as regards the red tail bit part ... I actually dislike the use of Ball pythons as we in the UK call them by their proper name Royal Pythons
Royals also sounds so much more classy as well IMHO

We don't call Red Bamboo Rat snakes - Crazy Psychos or Corns snakes - Big colourful worms so why all Royals after something that some of them do occasionally ( ball up ) ??

Loads of things bug me ...I'm constantly reading in text books that snakes are EGG LAYERS , plain and simple ...never mentions the millions of live bearing snakes out there




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Ball python is only a descriptive name of a certain behaviour of the snake. The scientific name is python regius, royal python. Red tail is only a descriptive name of a certain body part of the snake! And because we have dark red tail(BCC) and light red tail(BCI) and Boas with a very dark tail, not red at all rather almost black tail (BCO), using this pet trade term creates a confusion