Ball Python

Here is one of the ball pythons at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. I volunteered there for three years before I moved to Arkansas.

This ball python was my favorite of all the snakes. He was a very nervous snake because he had been abused before coming to the Academy - he was found in a dumpster tied up in a trash bag and beaten pretty badly. Eventually he had to be taken off-program because all the visitors stressed him out too much. He was a very sweet snake to me though.