A JustGiving page was set up after Brandon's death. It seems like every few years a person is killed by a large boa constrictor or python, usually a captive snake, but once in a while a snake in the wild," adds Moon. "We know large constrictors can be dangerous to people. It grabs its prey with its teeth, then quickly wraps coils of its body around the prey and squeezes. Like most snakes, pythons don't chase after their prey. In pythons, but not boas, a pair of upper jaw bones called the “premaxilla” bear teeth. Also, the two families sport slightly-different body plans. How do you tell a boa from a python?īoas tend to bear live young, whilst all known pythons are egg-layers, with gravid mothers sometimes squeezing out over two dozen in a single clutch. Ball pythons will be more likely to hide and don't like to climb, since they aren't arboreal when in the wild. In captivity, the boa will likely be larger than the python, with a much slower metabolism, meaning you won't have to feed the boa as often and smaller food given at each feeding. Boa constrictors can be found all over the world, but pythons are Old World snakes, native to Africa, Asia, and Australia. However, they have many differences as well. Pythons have one more bone in their head than boas do and some additional teeth, and pythons are found in Africa, Asia, and Australia while boas live on those continents as well as North, Central, and South America.īoa constrictors and pythons are both types of constrictors, which means they squeeze their prey to death.
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