Python eats gator for lunck...and dies!
12-23-2005 | 09:29 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Python eats gator for lunck...and dies!
I'm gonna guess the pic was taken in South America because thats a big azz snake. and I think the biggest native snake in NorthAmerica is the Black Indigo snake, which I think gets up to 108'' BUT it's endangered and eats rats, squirrels, etc. But can you imagine walking up on a snake that size? (better hope it wouldnt be hungry)
12-23-2005 | 09:33 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Python eats gator for lunck...and dies!
no that pic was taken in the everglades. it's a wild python or one someone had let go out there. there are actually quite a few of em in there. they definately aren't native species though.
12-23-2005 | 10:25 PM
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RE: Python eats gator for lunck...and dies!
Unfortunately for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida's Everglades National Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to bust a gut—literally.
Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead python last week after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake's gastrointestinal tract.
The gruesome discovery suggests that the python's feisty last meal might have been too much for it to handle.
Clashes between alligators and pythons have been on the rise in the Everglades for the past 20 years. Unwanted pet snakes dumped in the swamp have thrived, and the Asian reptile is now a major competitor in the alligator's native ecosystem.
Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead python last week after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake's gastrointestinal tract.
The gruesome discovery suggests that the python's feisty last meal might have been too much for it to handle.
Clashes between alligators and pythons have been on the rise in the Everglades for the past 20 years. Unwanted pet snakes dumped in the swamp have thrived, and the Asian reptile is now a major competitor in the alligator's native ecosystem.
01-05-2006 | 07:33 PM
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RE: Python eats gator for lunck...and dies!
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if i saw it would restle it till it knew whowhore the pants in this part of the woods(me
)and then keep itas my pet
.................on second thoughti would unload on it from a safe distance and have it mounted. wouldnt that freak out all your guest when they walk in.lolthe only problem would be how in the hell would you get it out of the water when it was dead. that thing has to weigh a TON.
if i saw it would restle it till it knew whowhore the pants in this part of the woods(me
)and then keep itas my pet.................on second thoughti would unload on it from a safe distance and have it mounted. wouldnt that freak out all your guest when they walk in.lolthe only problem would be how in the hell would you get it out of the water when it was dead. that thing has to weigh a TON. 
