Python tries to eat alligator

[Big Ol' Smitty]

 

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Clash of titan reptiles leaves python, alligator dead

Thursday Oct 6 12:00 AEST

The tail of an alligator protruding from the ruptured gut of a python, which had swallowed its foe alive, bore witness to a fierce and unusual battle between two of the deadliest predators in Florida's swamps.

 

Park rangers, who photographed the remains of the two huge reptiles in the Everglades National Park, say the clash demonstrates the threat to the fragile swamplands posed by a growing population of non-native Burmese pythons.

 

Pythons, thought to have abandoned by pet owners, have been multiplying in the large swath of swampland, and environmentalists fear the exotic intruders threaten to overrun the national park, preying on native species.

 

Park biologist Skip Snow described the gruesome scene he found on September 27 in a remote corner of the Everglades park, which he said showed an almost four-metre-long Burmese python had "apparently" entirely swallowed an alligator about half his size.

 

"I say apparently because the tail and hind limbs of the dead alligator were protruding from a hole in the mid-body of the dead python," said Snow.

 

"Although some bones of the jaw were present, the head of the python was missing," he said in a field report, illustrated with graphic photographs.

 

The photographs show the hind quarters of the alligator protruding from the snake's mid-section. "The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator," said Snow.

 

"When extracted from the snake, the alligator was largely intact except for two open wounds, one to the top of the skull behind the eyes and one on the shoulder," he said adding that it was unclear how the python's gut was ruptured, or how the snake died.

 

Park officials have removed dozens of Burmese pythons from the Everglades over the past years, and are training a Beagle, nicknamed "Python Pete," to track the exotic invaders.

[BX]

Awesome.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Talk about a power dump...

[Ced]

I can't be the only morbid individual that was hoping for a video clip of this phenomenon.

[Big Ol' Smitty]

I can't be the only morbid individual that was hoping for a video clip of this phenomenon.

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Er, no...I searched in vain.

[Red Baron]

If there was a video, i'd certainly watch it.

[CheesalaIsGood]

HAHAHAHAHA! I hate snakes and gators. I'm pretty much against anything that might try to eat me. Bears are walking on thin ice as we speak.

[Carnival]

Park officials have removed dozens of Burmese pythons from the Everglades over the past years, and are training a Beagle, nicknamed "Python Pete," to track the exotic invaders.

 

 

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That dog will last 2 days before it gets eaten.

[Vampiro69]

Shit, I didn't know that there were pythons in the Evergaldes. Snakes are one of the few things that freak me out, and if I saw a python I would soil myself.

[CanadianGuitarist]

HAHAHAHAHA! I hate snakes and gators. I'm pretty much against anything that might try to eat me. Bears are walking on thin ice as we speak.

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I had a pet python for about two years; It never tried to eat me.

 

I, too, didn't know there'd be snakes in the Everglades.

[Guest Biggles]

I thought a snake would be able to size up it's victims better than that. Dumbass.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Its eyes were bigger than its stomach...

[kkktookmybabyaway]

OK, now it's on -- wipe out the lot of 'em...

 

Miami Gardens, Florida - Elidia Rodriguez of Miami Gardens had been looking for her year-old Siamese cat for two days when her son pointed out the bulging Burmese python slithering in her backyard.

 

Experts say that bulge in the 12-foot snake is probably the missing 15-pound cat.

 

Rodriguez got the cat last year as a post-hurricane gift. She named the cat Frances, after the storm.

 

The snake was spotted in Rodriguez's backyard yesterday.

 

Experts with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit says Frances wouldn't have stood a chance against the larger predator.

 

The snake was captured and taken to the Sense of Wonder Nature Center at AD Barnes National Park.

 

Earlier this month, authorities say a 13-foot python burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole.

[Guest sillynigger]

harharhar

 

These pythons are dumbfucks.