What does a Reticulated Python eat?

Answer 1

As an owner of 5 retics., I think I have some pretty good input on this. They'll eat pretty much anything warm blooded when they're very hungry. However; I always feed mine frozen jumbo rats. However, you can feed them rats, chickens, birds, rabbits, pigs, goats (depending on their size of course). Retics are one of the best feeding snakes out there - they're not very picky!! Although I would definitely recommend frozen rats. They're very cheap, they're mite free and anti-microbial free due to the freezing. It usually doesn't take much to switch your retic or burmese from live to frozen.

The Reticulated Python is a member of the Pythonidae family and has and average length of 15ft to 25ft however, it is possible for some to grow near 30ft with a weight of 300lbs; the largest was measured at 33ft; they can be located in Southeast Asia and can be found in the tropical rainforest's, a member of the Boa family the female can have up to 100 eggs at a time, the diet consists of small mammals and birds, the larger the python the larger the prey which include pigs, dogs, cats and primates, the python ambushes it's prey and suffocates the victim rather then crushing it, after swallowing the prey whole digestion takes many days to several weeks depending on the size of the prey.

Answer 2

pretty much whatever it can catch. In captivity they mostly get fed small rodents.

The (Asiatic) Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus) is a member of the Pythonidae family and has and average length of 15ft to 25ft however, it is possible for some to grow near 30ft with a weight of 300lbs; the largest was measured at 33ft; they can be located in Southeast Asia and can be found in the tropical rainforest's, a member of the Boa family the female can have as many as 100 eggs at a time (Average is 60 eggs) and the hatchlings are at least 2 ft (61 cm) length, life span of the python is 25 to 30 years. The diet consists of small mammals and birds, the larger the python the larger the prey which include pigs, dogs, cats and primates, etc., the python ambushes it's prey and suffocates the victim rather then crushing it, after swallowing the prey whole digestion takes many days to several weeks depending on the size of the prey.