Ball pythons can reach lengths of 4 to 6 feet. Staff with the rescue group will help potential adopters understand what equipment and husbandry is required for the animals to thrive.

Ball pythons are native to west sub saharan Africa and typically don’t grow as long as the invasive Burmese pythons blamed for wiping out small mammal populations in South Florida.

On Tuesday, people spotted the ball python along the trail near West 121st Avenue and Zuni Street and Westminster Animal Management was notified, according to the police department’s Facebook page.

The ball python in St. Louis, which is between four and four and a half feet long and does not have a name, arrived at the zoo in 1961 through a private owner. It was estimated to be about 3 years ...

Small ball pythons start at around $400, according to the Petco website. More on ball python found in Palm Beach County: A python was captured in the Lake Park Lowe’s parking lot … but not Burmese ...