Learn about what ball pythons eat, how often you should feed them, reasons why they might not eat, and what to do if they won’t eat their food.

A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

Python diet Smaller species of pythons eat birds and rodents, whereas larger species devour larger animals like pigs and monkeys. Pythons are predatory animals that mostly feed on mammals and birds.

“Pythons can go months or even a year in the wild without eating and then consume something greater than their own body mass, yet nothing bad happens to them,” said senior author Leslie Leinwand, ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought ...

Unlike their Burmese ancestors, pythons in Florida never take a break from eating, which has made them more tolerant to cold and could allow them to grow bigger faster and reproduce more often, a ...