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

ZSSD / Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus) sensing with tongue, native to China and Indonesia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Bredl's Carpet Python (Morelia bredli) coiled on rock ledge on mountain side, Trephina Gorge National Park, MacDonnell Ranges, Australia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Ramsay's Python (Aspidites ramsayi) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

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.

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

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Asian Rock Python (Python molurus) with extended tounge, India

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

Robert Valentic / Spotted python {Antaresia maculosus} on rock, Bunya mountains, Queensland, Australia

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

Tony Phelps / Roundworm found insde African Rock python {Python natalensis} South Africa.

Tony Phelps / Roundworm infestation of captive African Rock python {Python natalensis} South Africa.

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

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Ramsay's Python (Aspidites ramsayi) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Asian Rock Python (Python molurus) captive portrait of snake camouflaged against leaf litter, found in southeast Asia

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Asian Rock Python (Python molurus) close-up detail of skin showing scales and pattern, native to Asia

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

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