Alligator Wins Death Match Over Burmese Python

[icyfroth]

A FLORIDA alligator is being hailed an environmental hero after being pictured devouring a Burmese python which are invading the Everglades.

The photo, posted on the Everglades National Park website, showed the alligator had won the death match.

The Burmese python, which has no natural predators and can eat alligators, has been invading the Everglades in massive numbers because they can reproduce in large numbers.

Some believe there are now more than 100,000 of the pythons in the area.

But local resident Steve Greene said this alligator was determined that there would be one fewer snake to worry about.

‘The gator was moving fast and very determined to get under the bridge (to get the snake),’ Mr Greene said.

Burmese pythons can reach 7 metres or more in length and weighing up to 90 kilograms with a girth as big as a telephone pole.

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That would make a handbag, a cpl pairs of shoes and a set of luggage to match!

Anyway, how did the Burmese Python get to Florida? Another escapee?

[*mrgrizz*]

did you want to be a news presenter as a kid?

[b3llag1na]

Icy, from what I have heard,  it only took a few people releasing their unwanted "pets" into the Everglades - now it is over run with introduced snake species, creating havoc with native populations.

[icyfroth]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

did you want to be a news presenter as a kid?

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How did you guess

[icyfroth]

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@b3llag1na wrote:

Icy, from what I have heard,  it only took a few people releasing their unwanted "pets" into the Everglades - now it is over run with introduced snake species, creating havoc with native populations.

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They'll have to start up a program of Python Hunters like they do the 'gator Hunters.