(daily caller can SUCK IT for the lousy embed. The snake was so small and the video so tiny it was not visible AT ALL on my phone)
Posted on 08/20/2024 5:28:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ahh … God bless the great state of Florida.
If you’re not familiar: Every year, an event named the Florida Python Challenge pops off in the Sunshine State to help the removal of Burmese pythons that are invading the Florida Everglades and areas around the legendary wetlands. Here in 2024, things are no different and this year’s edition has been going on the last few weeks in South Florida.
Well, while this has been going on, one python hunter was shocked when he found a snake taking a ride on an alligator.
In the words of Bobby Ruiz, a Wink News viewer who you can hear in the video, “this is the most Florida thing you will ever see.”
I’ve been living in Florida for half a decade now and I’ve done plenty of fishing here. I’ve seen my fair share of alligators and snakes are a normal thing here in the Sunshine State, but I’ve never in my life seen a snake riding an alligator. Like, what?
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK....................
Even though I’ve never seen it, this is so par for the course for Florida. Crazy ish is always happening with our wildlife.
Recently when I was on vacation in Cape Coral, I was doing night fishing in the canal (I caught two catfish, by the way). While fishing my wife and I ended up hearing a Burrowing Owl — Cape Coral actually leads the whole of Florida in Burrowing Owls population.
And then not much longer after hearing the owl, just listening to it and observing nature, we heard what I still believe to this day to be a baby crocodile. We have over 1,000 crocs in Florida, I compared the sound over and over to a clip I found and I swear it was a baby crocodile.
But that’s my point: From two catfish, to an owl, to potentially a baby crocodile.
That’s Florida, man.
Gator Python Ping!...............
Snake - Biden
Alligator - kaMAla
Mrs. V_TWIN has what I think is a legitimate question.
Pythons have now been deemed an invasive species in Florida so why limit when and how many can be caught?
Let’s have a continuous round up......chances are, they’ll never eradicate all of ‘em anyway. 🤷
UberGator.
The snake isn’t riding the gator, it’s trying to figure out how to eat him...
They pull some monster gators and pythons out of the Everglades every year. I live in central Florida and have a huge lake fairly close to my house. It has a creek that connects it to lake Kissimmee. The gators raise babies in that creek. It’s nothing for them to pull a 15 foot gator out of my lake every year. I think one year was a 17 foot. Or close to it.
(daily caller can SUCK IT for the lousy embed. The snake was so small and the video so tiny it was not visible AT ALL on my phone)
They don’t want people overrunning the everglades like wildcat gold miners in a goldrush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida#Control
When you can’t separate the ads from the article is isn’t worth trying to read.
What ads?...................
The video is literally 1 inch wide and 2 inch height size on my browser, with no way to enlarge it unless you download it to your device.
Total waste of time.
Worst, most baffling website. I can’t find a video or link on the entire page. Worthless.
Reminds me of the gingerbread man riding on the fox for safety.
Or the Scorpion and the Frog..................
Put a bounty on them. Bring a snake head to a ranger get a free fishing license for a year.
That’s what they did with Nutria in Louisiana......$5 a tail last time I checked.
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