The Importance Of Ball Python To Ecosystem

The Ball Python is an important organism in many ecosystems. The snake helps out a lot in all ecosystems around them by different ways they live. The food web of the snakes and other organisms in an ecosystem helps to show how the snakes live in their habitats and help make a community. Snakes are simple animals.
These non-venomous constrictors use their forked tongue to detect different odors from their prey. The Ball Python strikes with great velocity and kills by constriction. The snake's diet is a great help in ecosystems by keeping populations low in different rodents and gerbils. These snakes knows weather their prey is too big or small, if the snake feels threatened they curl up in a ball or coil, this is where they got their name. The python is actually nocturnal, and so are most active during night time, like the things the snakes feed on. These snakes live in the grasslands or savannas of West Africa. Ball pythons also like sparsely wooded areas, a termite mound or and underground burrow is where the spend most of their
Ball pythons tend to be calm snakes. Since people have realized this they have became pets. These snakes are probably the most popular pet snake there is in America. The snake is captured by the native people that live there for foods and leathers, and they also are collected for the pet trade, so the python is decreasing in population, but it is not large enough to warrant a threatened status. So as of right now these pythons are becoming extinct, but not bad enough for us to worry about it yet.

In a ball pythons ecosystem the food web is simple. The ball pythons eat mice and small gerbils like animals. Pythons do have predators. Younger snakes are more subject to predation from larger birds. Ball Pythons also can get eaten by wild dogs, hyenas, larger snakes, and some insects. This is a (+/-)