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Python eats gator, stomach ruptures
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| 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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Sometimes, after a particularly good dinner I feel like that going to happen to me.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:07:38 AM PDT
by
Pessimist
To: Pessimist
Florida has seen an increase "introduce" animals over the past few years. Now, you can find Pythons, Mexican grasshoppers, Texas Horned Lizards, Iguanas, Komodos, Parrots, Toucans, and even the occassional monkey in the Everglades.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:09:18 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Gentlemen, Behold!)
To: Pessimist
Florida has seen an increase "introduce" animals over the past few years. Now, you can find Pythons, Mexican grasshoppers, Texas Horned Lizards, Iguanas, Komodos, Parrots, Toucans, and even the occassional monkey in the Everglades.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:09:18 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Gentlemen, Behold!)
To: Pessimist
Is there still room for jello?
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:09:19 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(It was a village of idiots that raised Hillary to Senator status.)
To: Pessimist
How long will it take for DU and MSM to link George Bush to this tragedy?
5
posted on
10/05/2005 11:09:27 AM PDT
by
oyez
To: Pessimist
Sure would've liked to have seen live footage of that fight. ....and then the scarf-down.
6
posted on
10/05/2005 11:09:34 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Pessimist
7
posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:07 AM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
To: Pessimist
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:19 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Wanna be on my CE ping list? Say the word!)
To: TheForceOfOne
How about a mint? It's wafferrrrr thin
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:26 AM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: Pessimist
"The Miami Herald reported that scientists can't figure out how the snake got the critter down."
The snake was inadvertently exposed to videos of Michael Moore during his eating rituals.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:34 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: Pessimist
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!
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:45 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
To: Pessimist
alligators gots sharp claws. can cut their way out of most anything...
12
posted on
10/05/2005 11:10:45 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: Pessimist
I thought large snakes were smarter than this. What? It couldn't find a rabbit so it settles for a 6-foot alligator?
To: jwfiv
Truly bizarre. Check out the photo.
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:12:39 AM PDT
by
Serb5150
(I'm preparing for the big one. Are you?)
To: Pessimist
Thought this might have been about the University of Alabama football team :)
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:13:00 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Just because we are not perfect, does not mean we are not good.)
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!
Damn, you're OLD!
To: Pessimist; Fierce Allegiance
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:14:30 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Chat is my milieu)
To: Pessimist
Only on Thanksgiving, when I act like I never saw food before
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:15:09 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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. That would be back in, what, 1895?
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posted on
10/05/2005 11:15:22 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
Never eat anything bigger than your head.
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