In the Everglades National Park in Florida, the new residents have been trying to find their place in the ecosystem. These Burmese pythons, introduced when their owners abandoned them in the area, are making a grab for the top of the food chain.
Pictured, an alligator protrudes from a thirteen-foot-long python who made the ill-considered decision to attempt to swallow the six-foot-long gator whole. It seems the alligator found the prospect disagreeable, and struggled with its claws until it tore through the snake, resulting in the deaths of both animals.
The pythons are creating a fair amount of problems in the local ecosystem there, and at least 150 have been captured in the past 2 years.
It’s sad that people will go to the trouble to illegally dump pets they no longer want instead of putting an ad in the paper offering them cheap or free, or just donating the things to pet stores that handle that kind of animal. I have given up fish that way (donating to the pet store) , as they became too large for the aquarium I have. Why risk going to jail or having to pay large fines when you can give up the animals safely and legally? Animals that have spent time in captivity don’t do all that well in the wild, even if they don’t act like the family dog.
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Don’t be sad. Be happy. The people dumping out their pets are 1) DUMB 2) UNAWARE
Be happy that your neither.
THIRD!!!!!!! After all these years! The python deserved it. It bit off more that it could chew.
4th!!!
I’ve seen a lot of photos of pythons eating gators…. and in a few of them, the snake’s stomache burst open because the gator was too big to swallow. “Gator killed the Python from the Grave.” (Halo reference)