Snake bursts after gobbling gator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.

The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.

The remains of the two giant reptiles were found by astonished rangers in the Everglades National Park.

The rangers say the find suggests that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps.


Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species
Prof Frank Mazzotti

The python's remains with the victim's tail protruding from its burst midsection were found last week. The head of the python was missing.

"Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild... And here we are," Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

"They were probably evenly matched in size. If the python got a good grip on the alligator before the alligator got a good grip on him, he could win," Professor Mazzotti said.

He said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach, leading it to burst.

He said that there had been four known encounters between the two species in the past. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.

Burmese pythons - many of whom have been dumped by their owners - have thrived in the wet and hot climate of Florida's swamps over the past 20 years.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978.stm



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I believe the other snakes in the neighbourhood start on the Atkins Diet from now on.... Man, impressive size of that snake :shock:
 
wow, when he said he had an aligator head sticking out and really needed to use the bathroom he wasn't joking
 
Has anyone seen the picture on the web a few years ago of some people in a tropical country cutting an anaconda open and extracting a man's body? Was that a hoax?

I'm moving to Ireland.
 
Missileer said:
Has anyone seen the picture on the web a few years ago of some people in a tropical country cutting an anaconda open and extracting a man's body? Was that a hoax?

I'm moving to Ireland.
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Yeah I've seen those pictures. I believe that one was featured on National Geographics Europe last year or so if I'm not mistaking.

See you in Ireland :D
 
Yeah it's odd that the snake was found without a head :?
This is/was a Burmese Python one of many introduced species from people who had them as pets and released them when they found out that they weren't as easy to keep as they thought. Now they're down here competing with the gators for the top predator role in the glades. That 6 foot gator wasn't the biggest brute on the block by a long shot so the snakes don't always win the confrontations. I think the news said that the fish game dept. had trapped 150 Burmese pythons so far in an effort to eradicate them.
 
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