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Snake bursts after gobbling gator
   
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.

"Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species," Prof Mazzotti said.

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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Please make that picture a link or something. Thats disgusting.

yummy looks tasty

Well.. i dont find it digusting because i cant actually interpret it.. lolz

O_o that's crazy... but cool in some weird way

* Joa wishes she could have seen that fight

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me too!

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man looks like that python blew up pretty bad..

I didn't know pythons could be that big and that it would even attempt to eat it!

that's pretty sweet.... Go python!

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me too!

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me three!

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Interesting article. I actually have a video on my computer of a rock python eating a springbox. Pretty crazy stuff these pythons can fit in their mouths.

#!/usr/bin/python
explode()

Wow that's really cool. I was hoping there would be a picture. Imagine the feeling of eating something then having it scratch your stomach lining.

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Well.. i dont find it digusting because i cant actually interpret it..

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Wow that a hell of a Python

Should have kept a menu and sticked to it


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4313978.stm

Nothing I haven't seen on Discovery Channel

Pythons eat anything. I guess this one thought it was an Anaconda or something...

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Is it bad that I found sexual innuendo in the thread title?

That story/pic reminds me of the ending to the 1st Men In Black movie where Tommy Lee Jones blows apart the alien bug from the inside.

Saw it in the newspaper this morning, pretty sick

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Men In Black

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Is it bad that I found sexual innuendo in the title?

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Python  + Alligator(Bomb) = Owned(Exploded)

uhhhh thats gross, glad that never happened to me when i ate that alligator...

iv said too much

Got Damn!!!!

what was the python thinking though, what a stupid animal lol and i wonder where it's head went..