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A sickly four-foot-long boa constrictor was found inside a third-grade classroom. It was captured by a custodian and then picked up by animal control. Officers believe the snake may have been an escaped pet from a nearby house.

A rhesus monkey, who was likely someone’s pet, was spotted near a road.

Contractors who were demolishing a house reported seeing a 6-foot boa constrictor slither off the property, which apparently escaped when its terrarium was knocked over.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confiscated an alligator that a man was illegally keeping on his property after a concerned citizen called the sheriff’s office. Officials found the 3 1/2 foot alligator in a heated, rubber-lined tank.

Tankh, a 17-year-old male snow leopard, was euthanized after experiencing severe kidney disease over several years, which resulted in kidney failure.

A 13-year-old male Orinoco crocodile was treated for an infected wound on the left-front wrist. Zookeepers believe the wound came from a bite from another crocodile.

A motorist stopped at a traffic light and tossed a Patagonian mara onto the street. The rodent was captured by wildlife officers at a nearby strip mall.

Candy, a female chimp who was more than 50 years old, died. She spent decades of her life alone in cramped cages at Dixie Landin’, an amusement park adjacent to Blue Bayou waterpark.

Two 12-year-old boys discovered and captured a 3-foot-long ball python near an elementary school. The snake was in shallow water by a drain line, and nearby was a shattered aquarium tank and the rocks and plants normally found in a snake’s habitat. The snake had a laceration near the end of its body, likely from the broken glass. The boys took the snake to the police, and it was then brought to a farm.

Police found an 18-24 inch long alligator inside a fish tank after firefighters put out a fire at a house.