May 23—Elise Robinson's philosophy of saying yes when opportunities come her way led to sadness when her pet ball python died recently, but it's a philosophy the animal lover doesn't intend to ...

Elise Robinson, whose pet Volta ball python recently died at the age of 32, holds a corn snake. [JERONIMO NISA/DECATUR DAILY] ...

Ball pythons are non-venomous, instead killing their prey using their long bodies to constrict the victim until it dies. Zolta the ball python coiled up into a ball.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain details here.