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  • Python Eats Gator, Explodes

    10/07/2005 10:14:39 AM PDT · by Termite_Commander · 16 replies · 2,301+ views
    LiveScience.com ^ | October 6th, 2005 | Denise Kalette
    MIAMI (AP) -- 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. Over the years, many pythons have been abandoned in the Everglades by...