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SikStyles
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O.P. Python explodes by eating an alligator
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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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This post was edited on 10-06-2005 at 04:00 AM by WDZ.
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| 10-05-2005 10:58 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
Please make that picture a link or something. Thats disgusting.
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| 10-05-2005 11:01 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
yummy looks tasty
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| 10-05-2005 11:08 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
Well.. i dont find it digusting because i cant actually interpret it.. lolz
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| 10-05-2005 11:13 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
O_o that's crazy... but cool in some weird way 
* Joa wishes she could have seen that fight |
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| 10-05-2005 11:13 PM |
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O.P. RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
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Originally posted by Joa
* Joa wishes she could have seen that fight
me too!  You're still breathing? Why?
Get off the cross, the wood is needed.
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| 10-05-2005 11:18 PM |
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dylan!
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
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* Joa wishes she could have seen that fight
me too!
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| 10-05-2005 11:22 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
man looks like that python blew up pretty bad..
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| 10-05-2005 11:25 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
I didn't know pythons could be that big and that it would even attempt to eat it! |
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| 10-05-2005 11:52 PM |
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RE: Python explodes by eating an alligator
that's pretty sweet.... Go python!
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| 10-05-2005 11:54 PM |
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