Python Explodes after eating alligator!

[Alpha2004]

I saw a video of a snake swallowing a full grown kangaroo

:x

http://media.skoopy.com/misc/snake_roo/

nvm

[futrstyl]

Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator

By DENISE KALETTE, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 5, 4:04 PM ET

MIAMI - The alligator has some foreign competition at the top of the Everglades food chain, and the results of the struggle are horror-movie messy.

A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said.

The incident has heightened biologists' fears that the nonnative snakes could threaten a host of other animal species in the Everglades.

"It means nothing in the Everglades is safe from pythons, a top-down predator," said Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor.

Over the years, many pythons have been abandoned in the Everglades by pet owners.

The gory evidence of the latest gator-python encounter ? the fourth documented in the past three years ? was discovered and photographed last week by a helicopter pilot and wildlife researcher.

The snake was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Mazzotti said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it.

In previous incidents, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.

"There had been some hope that alligators can control Burmese pythons," Mazzotti said. "This indicates to me it's going to be an even draw. Sometimes alligators are going to win and sometimes the python will win."

It is unknown how many pythons are competing with the thousands of alligators in the Everglades, but at least 150 have been captured in the past two years, said Joe Wasilewski, a wildlife biologist and crocodile tracker.

Pythons could threaten many smaller species that conservationists are trying to protect, including other reptiles, otters, squirrels, woodstorks and sparrows, Mazzotti said.

Wasilewski said a 10- or 20-foot python also could pose a risk to an unwary human, especially a child. He added, however, "I don't think this is an imminent threat. This is not a `Be afraid, be very afraid' situation.'"

[NikkiRox]

LOL! that's so cool!...i mean, poor snake...

[Master Shake]

That's what happened to one of my old girlfriends one time upstairs.

[Epimetheus]

LOL! that's so cool!...i mean, poor snake...

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The question is, did the alligator survive?

[icecaveman]

To bad the picture is very low res :(

[Master Shake]

The question is, did the alligator survive?

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I imagine it probably suffocated. It says the scientists found it that way I think.

[Keldyn]

Looks like he bit off a little more than he could chew! :shifty:

[y0sh]

What a greedy little thing.

[badnewz]

it must have been very hungry

[waurbind]

so whos gonna be the first to say 'id hit it'?

[Scudworth]

What a greedy little thing.

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....*scratches head*....if you weren't sure when the next time you were going to eat would be you would eat asmuch as you could too.

[illicit]

That's what happened to one of my old girlfriends one time upstairs.

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:huh: :o :laugh:

[perochan]

greedy ****** lol.

[fuel925]

Strange... those snakes would usually squeeze the gator to death before attempting to swallow it. Anacondas do this kind of thing all the time, especially with younger crocs!

Heres my snake showing the python how its done, although with decidedly smaller prey :p

[M1h4iL]

^ Nice pet, and it would be interestign to see that snake with the aligator inside, how did it move :/ Must have looked like an aligator shaped snake too.

[insanekiwi]

wow :blink:

i saw a python eating a warthog and a venice once. but never a gator.

[Matt T]

That's ****ing incredible!! I would of loved to see a video of that.

[Jase]

I want to see the video soo bad!

[Colin-uk Veteran]

Jeez at least try and kill it first... :|

[E t h a n]

Unlike that picture that was circulating a year or so ago of a snake eating a canoe, this one is indeed true (Snopes)

Thanks for posting it!

Yikes! :pinch:

[Premgenius]

:o this is new for me I've see them eat large thing but burst something diffrent

[futrstyl]

The question is, did the alligator survive?

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No, the caption on the pic says both died. :x

[Matrix XII]

I bet the gator clawed its way through, I don't think that the snakes belly would have burst like that.

[golazo]

looks like he bit off more than he could chew