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...police officers said the incident was "not unusual" and that they have dealt with several snake escapes in the past few years...
Dorm occupants were not officially notified of the temporary escape because the snake was at large for only about two hours, police said...
...Anderson said the snake was recaptured around 2 p.m. when officials from Facilities Maintenance cut a six-inch by six-inch hole in the student's sheet-rock wall, exposing a hollow area in which the snake was hiding. The student will have to pay to fix the wall, he said...
Jose P. Rosado, a herpetologist, or snake expert, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, said a domesticated boa constrictor is harmless, except when in "feeding mode...
...Rosada said individual snakes vary and since he did not know the snake involved, "it's hard for me to speculate...