A royal python. Picture: Alamy Holmes said that some of the pythons were kept in small drawers, and a number of males had escaped to find female snakes to mate with. "Now we're probably going to have ...

Volunteers from Knaresborough Exotic Rescue were called to the property by a woman whose partner had left the royal pythons behind when they broke up. Daniel Holmes, from the reptile sanctuary ...

Royal pythons originate from the grasslands of West Africa and use constriction rather than venom to kill their prey. They can grow up to a length of 1.5 metres (almost 5ft). They are known to ...