A five-foot python was found under a sink in a Manhattan apartment.

The snake is in the very center of the concrete jungle! A five-foot python was found under a sink in an Upper West Side apartment, and now police are trying to figure out how it got there and who it belongs to, writes NBC.

Police were called at 8 a.m. June 5 to a building on West 87th Street. The caller said he saw a snake under the sink in his apartment.

Several of his neighbors contacted the police to report that they saw the reptile crawling along the outside wall of the building and trying to get into the basement apartment.

Police caught the snake, a brown and beige python, and took it to Manhattan Animal Care and Control. Department employees named the python Severus - in honor of the dean of the Slytherin house from the Harry Potter series of books. Now the reptile is cared for by a foster carer living outside the city.

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It is unclear where the snake came from or how it ended up under the sink. To keep a python or any other snake in New York, the owner must have a special license.