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Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
from 1010wins.com
Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator
By DENISE KALETTE
Associated Press Writer
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 incident has heightened biologists' fears that the nonnative snakes could threaten a host of other animal species in the Everglades.
"It means nothing in the Everglades is safe from pythons, a top-down predator," said Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor.
Over the years, many pythons have been abandoned in the Everglades by pet owners.
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.
In previous incidents, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.
"There had been some hope that alligators can control Burmese pythons," Mazzotti said. "This indicates to me it's going to be an even draw. Sometimes alligators are going to win and sometimes the python will win."
It is unknown how many pythons are competing with the thousands of alligators in the Everglades, but at least 150 have been captured in the past two years, said Joe Wasilewski, a wildlife biologist and crocodile tracker.
Pythons could threaten many smaller species that conservationists are trying to protect, including other reptiles, otters, squirrels, woodstorks and sparrows, Mazzotti said.
Wasilewski said a 10- or 20-foot python also could pose a risk to an unwary human, especially a child. He added, however, "I don't think this is an imminent threat. This is not a `Be afraid, be very afraid' situation.'"
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Wow, that is amazing!
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| Posted 10/6/05 9:25 AM |
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BabyAvocado
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Vomit icon please!!! 
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| Posted 10/6/05 9:26 AM |
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baghag
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
I couldn't BELIEVE it until I saw the picture. That was one ambitious python. 
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| Posted 10/6/05 9:43 AM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
OMG.... That's what that snake gets for being GREEDY!!!
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| Posted 10/6/05 10:04 AM |
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MommyofG
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Ok snakes eating humans so I guess the movie Anacondas is not that far fetched!!!!!!
thats pretty freaky that pic!
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| Posted 10/6/05 10:12 AM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
I still can't get over this picture....gross!!!!
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| Posted 10/6/05 10:16 AM |
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SoinLove
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
That's crazy!
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| Posted 10/6/05 12:17 PM |
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dengal
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Wow, we just talking about this in the office.
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| Posted 10/6/05 12:18 PM |
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Leeners
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Wow! I think that's so cool. I have to send this to my niece, she'll love it!
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| Posted 10/6/05 12:22 PM |
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CaseyGirl
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
i always figured that occasionally those pythons had to burst - it just doesnt always seem possible that they can eat the whole thing!!!
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| Posted 10/6/05 12:33 PM |
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Jennifer
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!
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| Posted 10/6/05 2:07 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: Ewww. Python tries to eat Alligator & bursts
Yeah I woke up to that picture this morning
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| Posted 10/6/05 4:12 PM |
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