Bizarrely, it’s the second search for a boa constrictor on Vancouver Island in the past month, after a 1.8-metre boa named Bailey was reported missing at Tofino’s Chesterman Beach in early June.

The floor was thick with excrement, and the living room smelled of faeces and urine. A visibly underfed seven-foot boa constrictor was found in an enclosure strewn with numerous dead, uneaten chicks, ...

— The John Ball Zoo announced on Friday that a baby pygmy hippo is on the way. Penelope and Jahari, the zoo's pygmy hippos, are expecting their very first calf in mid to late August.

Search for another Vancouver Island boa constrictor prompts warning about exotic pets Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service likened it to finding a needle in a ...