Authorities can't tell if snakes found in storage unit are alive

Officials who found 32 pythons in a Dillworth storage unit say the reptiles might not be dead after all. Authorities were considering filing animal neglect charges against the owner of the snakes. Now they wonder whether they are in a type of hybernation.
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Officials who found 32 pythons in a Dillworth storage unit say the reptiles might not be dead after all. Authorities were considering filing animal neglect charges against the owner of the snakes. Now they wonder whether they are in a type of hybernation.

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