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A man found a 6 and 1/2 foot ball python coiled around his car’s carburetor and called police. The snake had escaped from a neighbor’s house.

A retired therapy monkey escaped through a doggie door was caught 3 days later. The monkey is a 5-year old greenback grivet and was in the process of being moved to a new home.

A spinner dolphin that was rescued and residing at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota since 2005 has died of unknown causes.

An 80-year old man is in fair condition after his 6-foot tall, 200-pound kangaroo attacked him for 15 minutes at an exotic-animal farm in Ohio. The man was taken to a hospital. The owners plan to euthanize the kangaroo.

Police were contacted by a snake owner that a 6-foot redtail boa constrictor could be loose.

A redtail boa believed to be someone’s pet was rescued by two good Samaritans while trying to cross a road. The snake was taken to Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland.

A snake was reported to be loose in a neighgborhood. The responding officer reported that the pet’s owner was located and advised of the situation.

A 16-year-old girl was playing with her aunt’s 6-week-old kinkajou when the animal bit her hand. She felt ill within 24 hours with stomach pain and a fever, and was hospitalized for six days. Kinkajous carry a unique bacteria called Kingella potus.

Police are searching for an 8-foot boa constrictor that escaped from a resident’s home. All residents were warned to keep pets and small children under close supervision.

A 13-foot tiger reticulated python was seized from an Acreage man who turned out to have a small menagerie of exotic wildlife in his home. Other animals in the home included a ring-tailed lemur, a skunk and a kinkajou, for which he was given a warning for possession without a permit. The python was taken to the Busch wildlife Sanctuary.