Basically, reticulated pythons eat mammals. They'll eat mammals as small a rat and as large as an antelope. At the zoo, pythons eat rats and young chickens.

What can I feed my reticulated python?

Diet & Water

A reticulated python's diet consists of frozen thawed rats, mice and rabbits. When small and young the python will be eating frozen mice roughly once a week. The size of the prey increases as the snake gets bigger moving from small mice up through XL mice to rats and eventually a rabbit.

Can a reticulated python eat a human?

The reticulated python is among the few snakes that prey on humans. ... Considering the known maximum prey size, a full-grown reticulated python can open its jaws wide enough to swallow a human, but the width of the shoulders of some adult Homo sapiens can pose a problem for even a snake with sufficient size.