Pythons eating alligators in the everglades

[BOSSHOG]

Heard the story on NPR. Actually sounded like a wash with the gators holding their own. Samuel L. Jackson just has to make a movie. Get those motherfucking alligators out of my motherfucking swamp.

[pitohui]

1. there's a famous photo of this somewhere

i think the python in question died of the alligator clogging his system

can't they hire some python wrasslers to round up some of these?

i know they wouldn't get them all but get a decent percentage and presumably the pythons would have trouble meeting mates?

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Bam!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html

[Ron Green]

10. What the hell is goin on in that picture???????

[originalpckelly]

11. The python ate the alligator and then burst open.

[lies and propaganda]

12. STFU !!!!!!!!!!!

that is the most insane thing i have ever fucking seen.

Even crazier then the whale that exploded all over traffic in Taiwan

[Chiyo-chichi]

15. Read my Snopes link in Post #6.

It is possible that the python ate an alligator that was already dead, and then someone came across the snake and chopped off its head & hacked open its stomach... 'coz... where's the head? Also possible that the gator clawed open the snake's middle from the inside.

[lies and propaganda]

16. you know what, looking at that picture I totally see what youre saying.

either way, that is some mysterious, really creepy dietary choices.

And Gross W Bush was my desktop for all of xmas, hilarious!

[Chiyo-chichi]

17. My son got a huge kick out of how well his cartoon was received

and the fact that several people saved it to their desktop.
Thanks, L&P.

[MnFats]

2. Pythons don't belong there. Another invasive species causing havoc...

....but you have to wonder....how large a gator could a python eat?

some yokels thought pythons would make great pets...got tired of them....tossed them without a thought for the environment....typical.

[pitohui]

4. they say it's a 6 foot gator killed in the photo story linked above

that is not a baby gator by any means

[Chiyo-chichi]

6. Yep.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator.asp

and the photo is real, but the circumstances are not documented. What happened to the python's head?

[blues90]

5. When I lived in southern Florida

I used to have a few aquatic turtles and went to pet shops to buy supplies .

There are many shops and importers there that bring in exoctic reptiles and ship them all over the US for sale at petshops . The thing about FL is many imports get loose from the shipping containers and many are released by bored owners and these herps can live in FL just fine .

There are also nile monitor lizards loose and breeding in FL which reach 7 feet and they feed on all wildlife as well as their main diet of nile crock eggs .

It is a huge problem since these reptiles are so wary and hard to locate let alone capture .

In southern calif where I live now there are laws that require a license to purchase reptiles that reach over 4 feet but this is only in a small area . However one can order anything online and have it shipped so there is really no control .

[Gato Moteado]

13. i lived in miami for 4 years.....

and aside from the occasional ball python, burmese python or boa constrictor, we would see boatloads of other exotic (non-native) reptiles and amphibians. just off the top of my head:

giant marine toads (Bufo marinus)
cuban tree frogs
spectacled caimans
green iguanas (iguana iguana)
spiny tailed iguanas (Ctenosauris similis)
curly tailed lizards
brown anoles
jamaican anoles
knight anoles
blind snakes
brown basilisks
green basilisks (Basiliscus plumifrons)
greenhouse frogs
rainbow racerunners
tokay geckoes
mediterranean house geckoes
agamas
giant ameivas

that's just to name a few. i knew where breeding colonies of all of these things were.

i was keeping and breeding reptiles at the time.

now the boas and pythons are breeding as well in the wild there and they are more common than ever.

[LiberalEsto]

7. Can we send them some Republicans?

Or would the SPCA consider that inhumane?

[BOSSHOG]

8. If that was the only source of food

pythons and alligators would soon become extinct. No self respecting gator eater would touch a republican, even if served with hot sauce.

[flamin lib]

9. I had a reticulated python in my back yard here in Dallas/Ft Worth

I'm working in my office and hear my Schanuzer barking a new bark. Wasn't the squirrel bark or the possum bark or the meter reader bark, so I decided I better check it out.

The dog is by the deck in the back yard and barks, jumps back and barks again. Every time he barks I see something flash out from under the deck. I pick up the nine iron I use to chip the dog doo over the fence and walk out to see what's goin' on.

There's a six foot snake sittin' there teasing my dog.

I tried to catch him but the dog had him too agitated to be friendly and he left.

Funny thing was once I came out to see the snake the dog went back to his regular hang out and ignored me and the snake both.

[Gato Moteado]

14. it was probably a recent escapee.....

...retics (or any tropical boid) wouldn't survive a dallas winter.