Endangered Animals

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Endangered Animals

• Ball Python Jordan Ertel

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Description

• Foot long when hatched
• Adults 4-6 feet longvery uncommon
• Mostly dark brown with black spots
• Look just like other pythons

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Habitat

• Grasslands
• West Africa,
• Sierra Leone,
• Togo,and
• Senegal

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Food Source

• Mostly small mammals likealbino rats,or some
  kind of mice
• Small mammals such as animals the size of a half
  dozen

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Lifespan

• In captivity up to 50 years!
• But more likely 20-30 years

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Interesting Facts

• Smallest of all African python
• If extinct tons of small mammalsmice rats
  affect farms

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Reason for Endangerment

• Humans killing them for their skin to earn money

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What can we do

• Use clothes of cottonother materialput them in
  protection areas