Ball Python

== Roleplays that feature this creature ==
* Domestic Life
== Other info ==
Ball pythons don't need to eat very often and usually only eat twice a week at most, at least once every two weeks without beginning to suffer from malnutrition. They can survive up to 6 months without food. They usually spend most of the day hiding, and are well known for their behavior of curling into a protective ball whenever they feel threatened.
Mother will diligently protect her eggs, even skipping some of her already infrequent meals to minimize leaving them until they hatch. Newly laid eggs usually stick to one another, but loosen up over time. By the time the babies are ready to hatch, the eggs will no longer be stuck to each other. 
It is not uncommon for female ball pythons to lay fertilized eggs long after she last saw their father. It is much, much rarer, but occasionally a female ball python might lay viable eggs without a father at all, a phenomenon called parthenogenesis. Interestingly enough, both male and female babies can hatch from ball python parthenogenesis.
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