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solarflere
10-07-2005, 12:06 AM
A python tried to swallow an aligator, but the python bust in two. I guess an alogator was too much for it. I never seen anything like this. I have seen cobras eat other cobras (canibalism) but this. I just saw this on the news. :eek::eek::eek:
http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/05/10/06/python-gator.jpg
MIAMI - 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, 6-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. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3384280
and many other sites cover this story as well.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9610099/
Kurtman
10-07-2005, 01:53 AM
My mom told me about this. I was incredibly weirded out by it. I hear that the newslady had to look away because the picture was so disturbing.
HumanoidTyphoon
10-07-2005, 02:14 AM
I was looking at that picture the other day for like 10 minutes before I figured out what it was.
Zechs
10-07-2005, 02:40 AM
Anacondas have been known to eat 6-foot gators whole so this is nothing new. But it looks like this snake couldn't handel it.
solarflere
10-07-2005, 06:59 AM
This is a forth time this hapans. Itsa not an Anaconda its a Burmese python. Of cource neither of them are native to the region, that's the problem. Before and Alligator won, or it was a drad, but not a double death. Burmese Python was introduced to the evglades as an invading species, and its fighting for supremacy with the American Alligators. Alligators untill now were known to the at the top of the food chain there, a super preditor. But now is diferent. Athorities have already captured 150 or so of these pythons but sisce one on them can have as many as 100 eggs its aloosing battle.
Gatomon41
10-07-2005, 08:20 PM
Coming soon to the Sci-fi Channel...
Python Vs. Alligator 5
This time it's personal...
LightShadow1890
10-07-2005, 10:29 PM
It seems odd (very odd actually)....but what's the alligator and what's the snake? It looks like two fish heads are coming out of one fish body.
solarflere
10-07-2005, 11:40 PM
It seems odd (very odd actually)....but what's the alligator and what's the snake? It looks like two fish heads are coming out of one fish body. the Python is in a "u" shape and the alligator has his tail and his hind leg stiching out. the tail is somewhat sharp. I know its hard at first but you csn tell what is what USED to be.
Messing with the natural enviornment, by adding a speicies that does not belong, can change the ecology of an entire area...For example, certain kinds of plants, not native to an area, can destroy the natural habitat for all kinds of plants and animals in that area. It has happened in many areas...
..In the Lake Micihigan for example, zebra snails, attached themselves somehow to ships coming from Eruope where they are native, and have natural pratory enemies...Somehow they got into the Lake, and millions have been spent trying to unclog water intakes, because they attach themselves to the intakes, and multiply, and do not let go. No natural enemies...
Question: How did the Python get into the Everglades?
Artimus Gigan
10-08-2005, 12:13 AM
Question: How did the Python get into the Everglades?People kept them as pets and then released them into the wild after they lost intrest in them.
solarflere
10-08-2005, 12:14 AM
Messing with the natural enviornment, by adding a speicies that does not belong, can change the ecology of an entire area...For example, certain kinds of plants, not native to an area, can destroy the natural habitat for all kinds of plants and animals in that area. It has happened in many areas...
..In the Lake Micihigan for example, zebra snails, attached themselves shomhow to ships coming from Eruope where they are native, and have natural pratory enemies...Somehow they got into the Lake, and millions have been spent trying to unclog water intakes, because they attach themselves to the intakes, and multiply, and do not let go. No natural enemies...
Question: How did the Python get into the Everglades? Reptile specialists beliave they were once pets but once they become big, people get scared of them and release them ilegaly to the wild, in this case the Everglades. They multiply at an enormous rate. They can have upto a 100 eggs at a time.
Seeing the Allegators there was an incredible experience..............What a wonderful place to visit...If the ecology has been ruined by some thoughtless people..It would be so sad indeed:crying: Stuart
Artimus Gigan
10-08-2005, 12:22 AM
Seeing the Allegators there was an incredible experience..............What a wonderful place to visit...If the ecology has been ruined by some thoughtless people..It would be so sad indeed:crying: StuartActually they usualy fight in day long matches, much like this one....usualy the winner is the bigger of the two species...however this one was a tie.
solarflere
10-08-2005, 12:29 AM
If you think about it, pythons like all constrictors, use their body to wrap around its prey, strangle it and devour it whole and slowly digest it inside. Alligators are realy powerfull. Pluss theit top skin is like armor. it will make it real dificult for a python to strangle it, devour it whole, and digest it. I am guessing after the python swallowed the alligator whole, the alligator used its powerful tail to burst the skin of the python. Alligator's tails are very powerful.
90'sCartoonMan
10-08-2005, 12:37 AM
Did they ever do this on Animal Face-Off? I don't think so. I know a giant snake beat a cougar once, but no...no pythong vs. alligator...hmmmm...
I'd like to see a couple of armies of fire ants take on a python....There was a flick called the Heltsrom Chonicals, that showed what fire ants can do..they are not nice little social butterflies...Stuart
Elven Moon
10-08-2005, 01:57 AM
I see the alligator, but I don't see the snake :ack: Still gross, though.
I.R Joey
10-08-2005, 02:04 AM
That is just very weird looking. It takes some time to figure out which animal is which.
EightOh
10-08-2005, 02:47 AM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/yomurphy/blackknightground.jpg
"We'll call it a draw."
Outlander00
10-08-2005, 11:23 AM
Well, if anything... this takes the phrase "biting more than you can chew" to a whole new realm of absurdity. Kinda funny, really. :p
Conan-san
10-08-2005, 12:12 PM
the 'effing idiot got what it deserved, let's all laugh at it's expecne.
Wanted
10-08-2005, 02:49 PM
Took me a short while, but I got it.
The snake is the long curl, and the alligator, where the two sides split and the nasty stuff is seen, below that is the alligator. It might be hard to see it, but the alligator is upside-down, and it's hind leg hangs from the left. The alligator's tail goes from the right-bottom side of the screen.
EDIT: to make that easier, the python's shaped like a "C," and the alligator sticks out at the division.
Ryoutarou
10-08-2005, 04:22 PM
the 'effing idiot got what it deserved, let's all laugh at it's expecne.Can we point and throw rocks too?
I was able to see it right off the bat, have no idea how it would be able to do it though.
Silly McGooses
10-08-2005, 05:00 PM
...that is the most disturbing picture I have ever seen in my life...
I'm not usually squeamish, but...brrrr
solarflere
10-08-2005, 07:14 PM
Can we point and throw rocks too?
I was able to see it right off the bat, have no idea how it would be able to do it though. See an aligators tail is so powerfull , it uses it to steer in the water. if it ever hit you with it, you will fly a few meters back. It has a powerful Tail. So my guess, is that it just thrashed insode the python untill it busted through.
Cyber E.
10-08-2005, 08:59 PM
This is.. wow. This is easily one of the greatest things to ever be heard of. Nobody in Hollywood could come up with something as genius as this. Any report on if the gator survived?
Or for that matter, THE SNAKE? O_O
solarflere
10-08-2005, 09:13 PM
This is.. wow. This is easily one of the greatest things to ever be heard of. Nobody in Hollywood could come up with something as genius as this. Any report on if the gator survived?
Or for that matter, THE SNAKE? O_O Both KIA (killed in action).
Weatherman
10-09-2005, 03:37 AM
I see the alligator, but I don't see the snake :ack: Still gross, though.
It's sorta around must of the gator.
I'm guessing the gator was already dead when the python got to it. Phythons may be strong, but I do belive gators are stonger.
It was just too big for a 13 foot python to handle.
solarflere
10-09-2005, 08:49 AM
It's sorta around must of the gator.
I'm guessing the gator was already dead when the python got to it. Phythons may be strong, but I do belive gators are stonger.
It was just too big for a 13 foot python to handle. If that ould to be true, than the python would just need time to digest the gator, but it was killed by it.
Weatherman
10-09-2005, 03:15 PM
If that ould to be true, than the python would just need time to digest the gator, but it was killed by it.
The gator was just too big for the snake to swallow and hold. Snakes don't eat their prey live, and the gator was down in it's stomach when the snake, er....exploded.
solarflere
10-09-2005, 04:56 PM
The gator was just too big for the snake to swallow and hold. Snakes don't eat their prey live, and the gator was down in it's stomach when the snake, er....exploded. WHat? Pythons ALWAYS swollow their prey whole, alive or dead. Their body will expand as large as it needs. It might even fit the form of a prey it devoured.
Space Cadet
10-09-2005, 05:10 PM
Considering I hate snakes, good for the alligator to have the last laugh.
Weatherman
10-10-2005, 12:06 AM
WHat? Pythons ALWAYS swollow their prey whole, alive or dead. Their body will expand as large as it needs. It might even fit the form of a prey it devoured.
What I ment was they wait for their prey to be dead before they start eating it. Otherwise it could hurt them on the way down. That's why I said the gator must have already been dead and was just too big for a snake that size.
solarflere
10-10-2005, 12:12 AM
What I ment was they wait for their prey to be dead before they start eating it. Otherwise it could hurt them on the way down. That's why I said the gator must have already been dead and was just too big for a snake that size. American Alligators stock their prey by playing possum. As if they are dead or a log or something. Untill their prey gets dengerously close they strike. It could have been that the python tried to choke the like out of the gator but it was playing possum so it started to devour it. Thats my take on it. There is no way the gator was dead and did this damage to the Python.
puiphooey
10-10-2005, 02:16 PM
Three other gator-python encounters have been documented in the past three years, all of which ended with the gator's successfully escaping from or killing its serpentine attacker.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator.asp
Gators win.
Weatherman
10-11-2005, 01:00 AM
American Alligators stock their prey by playing possum. As if they are dead or a log or something. Untill their prey gets dengerously close they strike. It could have been that the python tried to choke the like out of the gator but it was playing possum so it started to devour it. Thats my take on it. There is no way the gator was dead and did this damage to the Python.
Point taken. I guess the gator killed the nsake and then drowned.
There's was another story kinda like this on the news today about some lady who lost her cat. Turns out another of those pythons had gotten it.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator.asp Snopes.com is a website that disproves Urban Legends which are lies that float around the internet...Sad stories, about so and so, if you have a hunch that it isn't true, check it out here...Or If you click on this spot Bill Gates will send you money or variations on that theme...I have used it to disprove many stories, that the sender claims to be atrue.....and this site checks them out and will tell you the truth..Even if they are not sure, and it cannot be varified, then they will tell you that...I trust them....By the way, as posted, and proven by snoops, the alegator bursting out of the snake, is indeed true....Stuart
,,,P.S. don't mess with no Gater...but if they are sunning themselves in the hot sun, and have got a full belly,,,,you can get within 5 feet of them, they are too full to worry about you...I was in the Everglades and got that close...people just waked by them,,,but it was obvious, they were not hunting...It was kinda silly,,,,but that hot sun, slows them down, and if they have eaten, well, no more today....I guess that was one of my less intelligent moments...The rangers in the Glades can tell you about staying so far and when they are safer to get somewhat close...Gaters.are really something...Seeing one out of a zoo was really a treat, in natural habitat
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