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hello all,

I have not been able to find the average lifespan of ball pythons, I have seen that the record is 47 years, anybody know what the average is?. I've had my girl for 11 years now and am starting to get curious how much longer we have together, she was my first snake and I have many others, but I am still in love with ball pythons.

Thanks
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Yours is just a youngster. I have one I purchased as a hatchling in June 1975. He's 29 and going strong.
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Al Zulich
Harford Reptile
www.pythons.com

Just kidding, I love my Balls and hope that they outlive me.
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2.1 Ball pythons
1.0 Boa Constrictor Imperator
0.1 huge fat albino Cranwell's horned frog
etc..

A good friend of mine has a Ball that is 34 years old (he bought it in the spring of 1970 as a baby) & in perfect health.
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CB

"I'm a truckin bassmole, and proud of it"