Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator

[progmom]

MIAMI (AP) -- The alligator has some foreign competition at the top of the Everglades food chain, and the results of the struggle are horror-movie messy.

A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said.

The gory evidence of the latest gator-python encounter - the fourth documented in the past three years - was discovered and photographed last week by a helicopter pilot and wildlife researcher.

The snake was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Mazzotti said the alligator may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GATOR_PYTHON?SITE=MILAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[billyskank]

1. Fer fux sake!

Is this the new brazilian joke?

[progmom]

3. uh...well...

x(

[billyskank]

5. You wait ages for a "python explodes after eating alligator" story

and, well, you know the rest...

[democracyindanger]

2. Beat me by 60 seconds.

But I still like sfgate's headline better:

"Python Explodes After Eating Alligator"

[Shell Beau]

4. So did the alligator live? I know the python didn't!

:wow:

[billyskank]

7. Have you seen the picture?

It doesn't look like it.

[Shell Beau]

9. No it doesn't!

:(

[billyskank]

11. It was one scene I really didn't need to see

right before going to bed! x(

[Shell Beau]

12. Yeah, that will make some pretty interesting dreams!

:o

[progmom]

13. sorry

x(

[billyskank]

14. You're not to blame

I saw it in one of the dupes before I saw your thread. The other poster actually put the picture in their thread. You had the decency to give us a link instead!

:pals:

[progmom]

15. aww....

you're so nice to me. :pals:

[LincolnMcGrath]

19. don't look here

:evilgrin:

[Demonaut]

25. It could be a gator dressing up as a python for halloween

:evilgrin:

[progmom]

8. they both died

[XNASA]

6. How did the python swallow a live gator to begin with?

Was it sleeping?

[tatertop]

16. Good question.

[DS1]

10. I guess that Alligator has the gas-face

*mega-explosive-flatulence-3rd-bass-reference-groan*

[blindpig]

17. snakes have never won any prizes for smarts

Years ago I lost a 7' boa and a 6.5' python when they started feeding on the same rat from opposite ends and the boa engulfed the python, regurgitated, then died.

Funny though, Anacondas in South America eat Caimans(tropical gators)as a staple, perhaps that's what you get for being an introduced species.

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. Holy hell

:scared:

:puke:

[cassandra uprising]

20. but in more important news

I'm back!

How's shakin Mamma?

[progmom]

21. I'll say it again - I really missed you!!!

And I am so happy you and your fabulous man had such a great wedding. It makes me happy to see two people I like and admire so much ending up together. :hug:

[cassandra uprising]

22. Word

That means a lot, really thank you

:hug:

It's a nice life. It was a beautiful ceremony and a kick ass party. RandomKoolZip threw me into the rafters. What more could a girl want?

[The Night Owl]

23. Clearly, the python lacked MORAL CLARITY!

:rofl:

[edbermac]

24. Monty Python? I thought they just ate spam...

And crunchy frog chocolates...

[mattomjoe]

28. "O sir but it is just s tiny little mint? What harm could it possibly do?"

:puke:

[Arugula Latte]

26. In other snake-eats-animal news, here is a more successful feeding

(for the snake, not the kangaroo):

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/snake-kangaroo.html

[KamaAina]

27. Hell, I ate gator once, and I didn't burst

It was at a little place right off Jackson Square. Alligator sauce piquant, to be precise.

The next day Mom and I went out to Audubon Zoo. She swears the gators there were giving me the stink-eye...

Mmm, I'm getting hungry, not so much for the gator (yup, tastes like chicken) as for its surroundings...

edit: can't leave off the sauce piquant, can we?