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Python eats gator, stomach ruptures
Nesnet5.com ^
| 10/5/2005
| AP
Posted on 10/05/2005 11:07:35 AM PDT by Pessimist
A python's eyes were apparently bigger than its stomach.
Scientists in Florida are puzzling over a Burmese python that scarfed down a six-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured.
They found the carcasses in an isolated part of Florida's Everglades National Park. Photos show the gator's hind legs and tail sticking out of the 13-foot snake's ruptured gut.
The Miami Herald reported that scientists can't figure out how the snake got the critter down. The snake's head is also missing.
Experts say the clash is interesting, but it also shows the exotic snakes are competing with gators to top the food chain in the Everglades.
Park biologist Skip Snow said he's documented 156 python captures in the last two years.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bushsfault; eyesbiggerthantummy; gator; gluttony; justdamn; overambitious; python; unnngh
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To: Pessimist
Stories like this are why it really bugs me that people import dangerous animals. I'm scared enough of green snakes, I really don't need to add mambas, cobras, and other creepy crawlies to my nightmares. lol
To: Pessimist
What happened to the snakes head?
Something doesn't sound right here.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:18:00 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Pessimist
A Thai restaurateur warned me this could happen. After eating Kang Puk, you get Kang Puk gut.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:18:12 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Troubled by NOLA looting ? You ain't seen nothing yet.)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:19:01 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Tennessee_Bob
What makes you say that.
*urp*
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:19:59 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Chat is my milieu)
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To: Pessimist
WHAT is a Burmese python doing in Florida? In the swamp...out there in the wild?
And when are they going to wipe them out?
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:20:56 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(Vegetarian, permaculturalist, cloth wearing, green, peak oil believing Trad Catholic Indie.)
To: Pessimist
Experts say the clash is interesting, but it also shows the exotic snakes are competing with gators to top the food chain in the Everglades. I saw it on one of those nature shows 15 years ago or so. Camera crew was farting around in south America or somewhere (trying to film some sort of cat, IIRC) when they ran across an anaconda wrestling around with a crocodile or whatever it was.
They filmed it for quite a while but it wasn’t their purpose for being there so they moved on. The narrator claimed they could fight and wrestle around for hours or even days and there’s no way telling who is going to win because each was capable of killing and eating the other.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:21:11 AM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: Cobra64
They had cameras back then?
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:21:57 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Wanna be on my CE ping list? Say the word!)
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To: Cobra64
Yeah, I used to have that picture - it was of an old guy that got snagged by a 14-foot gator on a golf course when he went looking for his ball, right? That was disgusting!
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:24:02 AM PDT
by
mobyss
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To: Cobra64
"About 110 years ago, a friend to me a picture of a gator whoose gut was slit open, and a partially digested man inside. Talk about gross!"
Something makes me question this story...
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:24:57 AM PDT
by
Spok
(Est omnis de civilitate.)
To: nmh
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:28:29 AM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Free choice is not what it seems)
To: Bookwoman
Never eat anything bigger than your head.Never eat more than you can lift.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:29:08 AM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
To: nmh
I'd guess another gator came along and ate the snakes head.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:29:18 AM PDT
by
American_Centurion
(A liberal is a socialist who isn't quite willing to get blood on his hands yet. -KarlInOhio)
To: American_Centurion
Snake heads, snake heads,
Yummy yummy Snake heads,
Snake heads, snake heads,
Eat them up, YUM!
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:33:37 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Wanna be on my CE ping list? Say the word!)
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To: martin_fierro
I thought you weren't going to the all the alligator you could eat buffet anymore...
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:39:47 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Pessimist
Rush talking about this now
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:40:15 AM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)
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