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===Diet===
The diet of the ball python in the wild consists mostly of small mammals and birds. Young ball pythons of less than {{cvt|70|cm}} prey foremost on small birds. Ball pythons longer than {{cvt|100|cm}} prey foremost on small mammals. Males prey more frequently on birds, and females more frequently on mammals.<ref name="Luiselli and Angelici 1998">{{cite journal |last1=Luiselli |first1=L. |last2=Angelici |first2=F. M. |name-list-style=amp |title=Sexual size dimorphism and natural history traits are correlated with intersexual dietary divergence in royal pythons (''Python regius'') from the rainforests of southeastern Nigeria |journal=Italian Journal of Zoology |date=1998 |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=183–185 |doi=10.1080/11250009809386744}}</ref> Rodents make up a large percentage of the diet; [[Gambian pouched rat]]s, [[black rat]]s, [[Oenomys|rufous-nosed rat]]s, [[Dasymys|shaggy rat]]s, and [[Lemniscomys|striped grass mice]] are among the species consumed.They can also consume quails and in the wild they can eat rocks to help grind up the food in their stomachs. If they are starving they eat their skin. Pythons are the the fattest snake in the world because they they can weigh up to 78 pounds!<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Python_regius/ |title=''Python regius'' (Ball Python, Royal Python)}}</ref>
===Reproduction===
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