Huge Snake Eats Alligator Video

This is a photo from a newspaper, which a big huge Burmese python.
This snake monster. from the part is this snake is not over in the Congo, it's a Python that someone released in the Florida Everglades.



Photo of PythonThe carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python Sept. 26 in Everglades National Park, Fla., after the snake apparently swallowed the alligator, resulting in the deaths of both animals. Associated Press photo courtesy Everglades National Park

Here is the article from the paper...

Python bites off more than it can digest (HeraldTimesOnline.com

October 6, 2005

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, 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.

Through 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. 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.


Photo of PythonThe carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python Sept. 26 in Everglades National Park, Fla., after the snake apparently swallowed the alligator, resulting in the deaths of both animals. Associated Press photo courtesy Everglades National Park