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.
GATOR PING!...................
Reason no. 24 why I do not want to move to Florida.
Pythons.
Alligators.
Looks like it has been dead for a while and decomposition has set in and bloated its body.
So let’s give the alligators growth hormones so they can more easily wipe out the pythons.
Then we stop the hormones after the pythons are gone.
Wow!
OMG the size of that snake, that gator has enough food for a week now!!!
Or…or the python is full of a bunch of other, smaller, slower alligators.
Yeah, I’d much rather deal with rattlers and Gila Monsters. They’ll bite you if you mess with them, but they won’t go out of their way to catch you and eat you.
They are not ‘skinny’ snakes........................
Bill Gates is working hard to make sure neither of them fart, you know - to protect the planet, or something.
I once read a sci fi book, I think “Day of the Dragon - Guy Endore”, where alligators hearts were deemed defective.
Surgeon repairs the hearts, and the alligators continue their growth, morphing into dragons. Which then escape and reproduce.
If I recall, it ends badly for man.
What could go wrong? Sounds like the makings of a 50's B horror movie.
FROM BRAVE AI:
Day of the Dragon
Guy Endore’s short story “Day of the Dragon” was first published in 1934. The tale revolves around a scientist who transplants a human heart into a crocodile, allowing it to rapidly metamorphose into a dragon. According to the story, these reptiles were originally dragons, and the human heart speeds up their metabolism, enabling them to regain their dragon form.
The story has been anthologized in several collections, including:
Monster Mix (1968) edited by Robert Arthur
Tales of Terror (1967) edited by Kurt Singer
Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum (1965) edited by Alfred Hitchcock
Avon Fantasy Reader, #2 (1947) edited by Donald A. Wollheim
Zoo 2000 (1973) edited by Jane Yolen
The story has also been mentioned in online discussions and forums, with some users recalling reading it in anthologies or collections featuring Alfred Hitchcock’s introductions.
Key Points:
Published in 1934
Scientist transplants human heart into crocodile, allowing it to become a dragon
Originally dragons, the reptiles regain their form due to the human heart’s influence
Anthologized in various collections, including those edited by Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Arthur
Mentioned in online discussions and forums
Overall, “Day of the Dragon” is a classic science fiction tale that explores the idea of reanimating ancient creatures through modern scientific means.
Trump=the Alligator making biden et al the huge snake.
I think the reason the snake looks bloated is because the snake has recently eaten something.
Smaller Alligators typically don’t have much of a chance against a mature snake, at some point the alligators get big enough to take on the pythons and it’s a much more equal fight.
In this case, the snake is huge, and the alligator looks pretty young.
The movie came out in 1980:
Alligator
“In 1968, a teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida and gives it the name Ramon. When the family returns home to Chicago, the girl’s surly, animal-phobic father promptly flushes it down the toilet and into the city’s sewers.
The baby alligator survives by feeding on the discarded carcasses of animals used in illegal experimentation and dumped into the sewers. These animals had been used as test subjects for an experimental growth formula intended to increase agricultural livestock meat production. However, the project was abandoned because while the formula had the desired effect of making the animals larger than normal, it had the unwanted side effect of massively increasing the animals’ metabolism, causing them to develop an insatiable appetite.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_(film)
And the infamous “Florida Man”
kinda resembles this year’s presidential election...
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