In highschool, we had an atrium in our school. Included were several constrictors and two pythons. One ball, one larger variety. It was kinda cool having a class where the animals basically made up half the classroom. Part of your course requirement was to maintain the animals, chosen at random, within the classroom for one semester. A great way to get people into the understanding of animals.
We had piranhas, huge leopard frogs that would eat full grown mice like they were going out of style and a 10 foot gator.
It's no longer because the nutcase that ran it retired, but it was cool nonetheless.
I remember one time, we threw a pigeon in with the big constrictor. It did nothing initially and the pigeon just wandered around. Then, in the middle of class, the snake hammered the pigeon and wrapped around it. The pigeon shot every last ounce of shit out of it's ass against the glass. Made some chick puke (the chick, who later married a good friend of mine). It was nature at it's finest.
Ah, good times.
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