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Snake Swallows 6-Foot Alligator
The Associated Press...Channel 6... ^
| October 5, 2005
| The Associated Press
Posted on 10/05/2005 2:00:49 PM PDT by george76
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To: ken5050
True. This one could balance itself out since the factors operating in the everglades are quite analogous to those operating elsewhere amongst convergent species (as you said the case of the Anaconda versus the Caymans in South America). Although with these things one never knows .....it may balance or it may not, either way it is still risky releasing exotic species into the wild. More often than not major boo-boos result from such stuff.
As for the nutria. Well ...if that rat is really coming into the US (I did not know this ...how did it get here and when ...was it also due to people releasing their nutria pets into the wild) then things could get interesting. Particularly if it got to Florida. The everglades would be heaven for it, and it would provide any resident predators (eg introduced Burmese pythons) with a ready foodsource. Sort of a mini capybara.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:36:10 PM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Chickensoup
So did I, but the pix makes it look like the tail did the splitting. Or maybe the hind legs. Or maybe I'm wrong.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:36:54 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: decimon
Let my abos run loose, Bruce
Let my abos run loose
They don't sing that part of the song anymore.
To: savedbygrace
So did I, but the pix makes it look like the tail did the splitting. Or maybe the hind legs. Or maybe I'm wrong.
I am really glad I didn't go into wildlife management. What an exciting find!
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:38:37 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Snake-ranching! Yeah, that's the ticket!)
To: gubamyster
A gartner snake doesn't bite people, or so I understand.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:41:12 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: george76
It wasn't the alligator it was the thin mint that caused the explosion.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:41:56 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: semaj
$#!*! How about posing a threat to a fully grown adult?
It wouldn't take that big of python to snuff an adult because they are incredibly strong. I wouldn't head into a jungle without a machine gun with BIG bullets.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:47:59 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(Become a liberal. Try to make everyone's life miserable.)
To: savedbygrace
>It looks to me like the snake swallowed the alligator whole, head first, but the 'gator wasn't dead. So, the 'gator was thrashing around with its uber-powerful tail inside the snake. That's what helped to split the snake.<
For some reason, I now have the following child's rhyme stuck in my head:
"She swallowed the spider, that wiggled and wiggled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly, but she swallowed the fly and I think she'll die!"
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:49:07 PM PDT
by
Darnright
(Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
To: savedbygrace
I think you're right, there's a rip in the snake about where the gator's head should be, he almost made it out...
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:49:29 PM PDT
by
Frank_2001
(Never, ever, EVER give up!;))
To: george76; Squantos
Make sure you thoroughly stune the beeber of anyone you then swallow whole....I always say.
You could explode. Does make the case for being slightly prepared for pythons and alligators coming up your lawn, eating each other, homeowners included, during a high water "event,"....and having an simple and traditional mechanical instrument with which to perhaps forestall one's own food-chain thrillride at that particular moment, 'er somethin...don't it. 12 ga. One call does it all. Even once is better than lots less.
..especially if we are to now suspect that our reptiles and amphibians are exploding, possibly from within eachother. For Triffids, Pods, and other invading alien species, even the Crawling Eye, and creature from the Black Lagoon....and of course those common giant radioactice crabs from the beach cave.....my Wal-Mart associate assures me that the 12 ga. is a great choice, considering. "So daddy killed the giant snake, and then a 6 foot alligator tore his way out of it, and ate Fi-Fi." No, really. [Note: thread now returned to rightful owners. Muttly back under porch.]
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:51:34 PM PDT
by
PoorMuttly
(A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
To: Kiss Me Hardy
Does your python lose its hunger
on the bedpost overnight
When your mother says to rid it
does it swallow her in spite
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:52:20 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Chickensoup
Shhhhhhh. The past is the past.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:53:12 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Ponce de Leon is coming here to look for the fountain of dumb. The DNC is his first stop.)
To: george76
Now I will have nightmares. As a child I encountered a python in the wild.
To: spetznaz
...which is why virtually all pythons owned by most collectors are either the Burmese, which can get large but will usually not try to eat you; It's an iron clad rule in my house not to have pets who try to eat people.
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posted on
10/05/2005 2:57:13 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: rwfromkansas
Gartner snake? Do they exist? We have Garter Snakes here in Michigan. As a small child I stepped on plenty of them barefoot in the fields, but was never bit. Had to keep up the tetanus shots though.....
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:12:33 PM PDT
by
JubJub
To: JubJub
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:17:19 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: mhking; PatrickHenry
a combined "just damn!" and "ain't the natural world frickin' WIERD?" ping
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:22:04 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(19sep05 - I want at least 2 Saiga-12 shotguns. If you have leads, let me know)
To: george76
Looks like the Snake bit off more than he could chew
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:23:35 PM PDT
by
todd1
To: Conspiracy Guy
I had a Burmese python that was 18 inches long when I purchased it. Over a year, it grew to 5 1/2 feet. My wife and I decided to pass the snake along to another couple that didn't have small children. We've had a Rosy Boa in the living room for over 10 years.
When I was working a contract in Florida, an employee of my customer invited me over to see his Burmese pythons. The small male weighed 80 lbs and was about 7 feet long. Very nice disposition. The female weighed over 150 lbs and was almost 12 feet long. She had a nasty disposition. Lots of hissing and striking behavior. The snakes lived on a diet of rabbits and chickens. The cage for the female occupied most of a bedroom (8 feet X 8 feet X 2.5 feet).
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:26:27 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: george76
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posted on
10/05/2005 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
WasDougsLamb
(Just my opinion.Go easy on me........)
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