Despite having a reputation for being evil, snakes are fascinating, diverse, and intelligent animals that play a vital role ...

The first is food security. Many of the snakes chose to go for periods of up to 127 days without eating, yet lost just a few percentage points of body mass at most. This means that farmers can ...

The snakes were fed a mix of locally sourced food, including wild-caught rodents ... They have been known to eat small pets including cats and dogs.) In the United States, Burmese pythons are ...