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

African rock pythons, for instance, have been documented eating smaller individuals of their kind during periods of food shortage. As one of the largest snake species, growing over 20 feet long ...

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 ...

Dr Dan Natusch, who has worked on the study says: "Snakes require minimal water and can even live off the dew that settles on their scales in the morning. They need very little food and will eat ...

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 ...