Anup Shah / African rock python (Python sebae) Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} eating Ground squirrel {Xerus rutilus} Kenya

John Cancalosi / Rock python (Python sebae). Africa

Jabruson / African rock python {Python sebae} feeding on Red billed quelea {Quelea quelea} Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Peter Blackwell / Rock python {Python sebae} constricting a Thomson's gazelle {Gazella thomsoni} Masai Mara, Kenya. Gazelle eventually escaped.

Eric Baccega / African rock python (Python sebae) swimming in Mpassa river, Bateke Plateau National Park, Gabon.

Jen Guyton / African rock python (Python sebae) smells the camera, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Jen Guyton / African rock python (Python sebae) in a defensive posture in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Jen Guyton / African rock python (Python sebae) in a pond, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Jen Guyton / African rock python (Python sebae) in a defensive posture in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Ernie Janes / African rock python (Python sebae sebae) constricting a Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) calf, Natal, South Africa, January.

Ernie Janes / African rock python (Python sebae sebae) constricting a Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) calf, with tourists on safari in the background, Natal, South Africa, January.

Tony Heald / African Rock python (Python sebae) coiled on ground, Savuti, Botswana

Pete Oxford / Local people with African rock python (Python sebae) at roadside, killed for bushmeat. Road from Brazzaville to Mbomo, Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Africa, June 2013.

Thomas Marent / African Rock Python (Python sebae) scale pattern, Jozani National Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Loic Poidevin / African rock python (Python sebae) going into hole, Masai Mara, Kenya, October.

Loic Poidevin / African rock python (Python sebae) going into hole, Masai Mara, Kenya, October.

Piotr Naskrecki / African Rock Python (Python sebae) in leaf litter, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Wim van den Heever / African rock python (Python sebae) in a tree, Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa.

Richard Du Toit / Impala (Aepyceros melampus) herd watching four meter long African Rock Python (Python sebae) killing impala fawn, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Anup Shah / African rock python (Python sebae) Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Anup Shah / African rock python (Python sebae) moving through grass, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Tony Phelps / African Rock Python (Python natalensis) juvenile hatchling, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Tony Phelps / African rock python (Python natalensis) portrait, Alicedale, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Tony Phelps / African rock python (Python natalensis) with tongue out, Alicedale, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Suzi Eszterhas / African Rock Python {Python sebae} swallowing Duiker, Masai Mara Triangle, Kenya

Peter Blackwell / Rock python {Python sebae} Kenya

Michael D. Kern / African rock python {Python sabae} snake hunting Egyptian Fruit Bats, in cave, Uganda

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} feeding on Red billed quelea {Quelea quelea} Tsavo NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} feeding on Red billed quelea {Quelea quelea} Tsavo NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} feeding on Ground squirrel {Xerus rutilus} Tsavo NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} feeding on Ground squirrel {Xerus rutilus} Tsavo NP, Kenya

Peter Blackwell / Rock python head {Python sebae} Kenya

Peter Blackwell / Rock python head{Python sebae} Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python (Python sebae) consuming Ground squirrel, Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} swallowing rat, Tsavo East NP, Kenya, sequence 3/4

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} swallowing rat, Tsavo East NP, Kenya, sequence 2/4

Jabruson / Rock python (Python sebae) consuming Ground squirrel, Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python (Python sebae) consuming Ground squirrel, Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} swallowing rat, Tsavo East NP, Kenya, sequence 4/4

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} swallowing rat, Tsavo East NP, Kenya, sequence 1/4

Peter Blackwell / Rock python {Python sebae} Kenya

Anup Shah / Lion scavenging Thomson gazelle killed by Rock Python {Python sebae} Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 7/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae} abandonning dead Thomson gazelle, Lion approaching, Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 6/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae} with dead Thomson gazelle watched by Black backed jackal, Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 4/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae} with dead Thomson gazelle, watched by Black backed jackals and Vultures, Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 3/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae} strangling Thomson gazelle, Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 1/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae} with dead Thomson gazelle, Lion approaching, Maasai Mara, Kenya, sequence 5/8

Anup Shah / Lion steals Thomson gazelle from Rock Python {Python sebae} Masai Mara, Kenya, sequence 8/8

Anup Shah / Rock Python {Python sebae}with dead Thomson gazelle watched by Black back jackals and Vultures, Maasai Mara, Kenya, sequence 2/8

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Jabruson / Rock python head portrait {Python sebae} Tsavo East NP, Kenya

Peter Blackwell / Flicking tongue & head of Rock python in grass {Python sebae} Kenya Africa

Mike Beynon / Rock python striking at prey from waterhole {Python sebae} South Africa

Peter Blackwell / Rock python {Python sebae} strangling Thomson's gazelle {Gazella tomsoni} Kenya

Jabruson / African Rock python {Python sebae} eating rat Tsavo NP, Kenya, Africa

John Cancalosi / Rock python, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa

Bernard Castelein / Rock python with mouth wide open {Python sebae} Keoladeo Ghana NP, Rajasthan, India

Tony Heald / African rock python with jaws open showing fangs {Python sebae} Chobe NP, Botswana

Pete Oxford / African Rock Python (Python sebae) feeding on Bee-eater (Merops sp), Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa

Pete Oxford / African Rock Python (Python sebae) in book shelf, Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa

Jabruson / Rock python {Python sebae} feeding on squirrel. Tsavo East NP Kenya

Ben Cranke / Central African rock python (Python sebae) coiled up resting, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Steve Gettle / African Rock Python (Python sebae) with swallowed Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) prey, Masai Mara, Kenya

Daniel Heuclin / African rock python (Python sebae) portrait, Togo. Controlled conditions

Daniel Heuclin / African rock python (Python sebae) portrait, Togo. Controlled conditions

Daniel Heuclin / African rock python (Python sebae) portrait, Togo. Controlled conditions

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Woman and children standing close to captive African rock pythons (Python sebae) in Temple of Pythons / Dangbe Temple. A voodoo cult dedicated to the python, Ouidah, Benin, 2020.