On probing
If a snake lays eggs, is that definitive evidence that it is female?
On longevity
According to Guinness World Records the oldest snake was a 40 year-old Red-tailed Boa (Boa constrictor), so the age of 48 would make this species the World's longest-lived snake. I did some searches, and found out about a Ball Python that died at the reported age of 49 years 4 months in Philadelphia Zoo (the same zoo as the Guinness approved boa!). But I found no more details, such as date of death, or if this snake was named. Another source gave this species a maximum age of 28 years in captivity. Clearly this calls for further research.
My research indicates the same, noted with a citation needed. Perhaps should be removed until an actual source is available. 166.192.42.138 01:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Poisonous?
This article doesn't discuss whether this snake is poisonous or not. Is it?
Ball pythons, like all pythons, are constrictors (squeeze their prey to death) and do not have any venom what so ever. or do they....
As stated, constrictors are all nonvenomous and the article was updated to note that. 166.192.42.138 01:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Units?
What kind of gallons are we talking about here? US gallons, UK gallons? dry gallon? Perhaps it would be better to use metric units. Same goes for temperature, it didnt specify at all, but I reckoned we were talking about Fahrenheit given the numbers, so I added that.
picture
i suggest using another picture of a ball python, as the pastel is a "non mainstream" variant. the picture displayed in the infobox should be (imo) representative of the "typical" specimen subject of the article and -if desired- pictures of the many variants (pastel, amelanistic, leucistic, etc etc) could be secondaryly included in the body or as links.
just ignore this suggestion if i'm wrong --217.126.82.94 15:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
- btw, same should apply to List of Serpentes families
Will work on finding photos 166.192.42.138 01:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)