Posted on 12/04/2024 11:37:38 AM PST by Red Badger
ORLANDO, Fla. - Visitors to Florida’s Everglades National Park were shocked to witness an alligator hauling a massive Burmese python.
VIDEO AT LINK................
The snake, which was noticeably larger than the gator, was an unexpected sight for the onlookers. Alligators are carnivorous, "apex" predators that will eat just about anything, including other alligators, wildlife officials say.
The Burmese python is an invasive species that has posed unique challenges to Florida's ecosystem. While rare, the snake has become more pervasive in the Everglades.
To control the python population, the state launched the Florida Python Challenge in 2013, which allows residents to hunt the snake for cash.
This year, more than 800 people from 33 states and Canada participated in the challenge, and hunters removed 195 Burmese pythons from the wild.
The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt. The rest of the prize money was divided among competitors in the contest's three categories: novice, professional, and military.
Hunters contracted with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the South Florida Water Management District work year-round to remove the invasive pythons from the wild. A female python can lay about 50 to 100 eggs at a time, so the competition is held during the hatching season in August. According to the wildlife agency, about 22,000 pythons have been removed from the state since 2000.
Whoa!
Looks like it has been dead for a while and decomposition has set in and bloated its body.
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This is what gators prefer.
They catch game, kill it, and then stuff it in a hidy hole for later.
For an alligator that’s “cooked” to perfection. Connoisseurs of French cheese would also understand.
[Visitors to Florida’s Everglades National Park]
Note to self: Don’t visit Florida’s Everglades National Park.
We have lizards the size of small dogs too.
Shoud a 30 year old man who self identifies as being ten be allowed to play little league baseball?
It was a bad movie. I remember a group of boys playing pirate making a younger boy walk the plank (diving board) at a party. We started crying when they were about to push him into the water. He saw the alligator, but they didn’t.
The movie had limited character development because the alligator would eat them too soon. Definitely not a Jaws quality movie.
It’s more tender later. I don’t think the FDA would approve.
The Score:
Python 0
Gator 1
How was that not a monster movie in the 50s?
The 1950’s sci-fi period was short and expensive............
You win the internet today!
A living python that size would have made short-work of that alligator.
Looks like the gator bit the head off.
Maybe gators are getting smarter.................
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VRr1BSULDKEX7VZD6
(That's the girl's mom behind her, trying to retain her composure. ;-)
What I mostly remember about 1950’s sci-fi movies is that radiation causes gigantism. Once this was definitively established, Hollywood had to move on to other things.
Exactly!
Gator quoted as saying “It’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner time”.
I think there is a reward...I’m not sure how the Gator is going to spend the money.
Doing what the govt cannot do....like the rest of us need to do.
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