Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is teaching people how to safely handle and bag pythons.

A Florida community caught nearly two dozen ball pythons slithering around. Between the species and the Burmese pythons, what are the differences?

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.

A ball python, a snake native to Africa, was found at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve in DuPage County Wednesday.

Ball pythons, named for their tendency to coil into a ball when threatened, are native to sub-Saharan Africa and aren’t equipped to handle North Carolina climates, the group said.