Sometimes, even in our dog-eat-dog world, particularly epic meals catch our attention. An albino ball python recently swallowed a baby alligator near a river. The albino ball python was seen strangling the baby alligator until it suffocated.
After the prey ceased all movement, the snake began to devour it, starting with the alligator’s head. Once finished with its meal, the python slithered towards the river and swam to find a safe hiding spot to digest its food.
These ball pythons were the first confirmed recessive mutation of the ball python species. As albinism is a recessive trait, it means that their genes are easily dominated. Similar to blue eyes in humans, that’s why we commonly see more brown eyes, a dominant trait.
The amelanistic trait means that the snake lacks melanin. Brown, black, and red pigmentation cannot be produced in its scales. This leads to the white, light yellow, or orange coloration that we see in albino ball pythons.
Albino ball pythons are not always white. Although the almost white and yellow coloration of this snake is the most popular and common among albino ball pythons, there are other pale colorations of this snake that could arguably be even more beautiful.
