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Submitted by Michael Tufaro When I came to decide that this article was going to be about a species of python found in Africa, I immediately drifted to Ball Pythons. But there is one similar python just south of the Ball python’s range. This is the Angolan Python, (Python Anchietae Bocage , 1887) and it is native to Angola and Namibia. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two appears to be that the shape of the scales of the Angolan python are more beaded like (similar to the...