OK, lesson to learn . . . don't be greedy.

Python Explodes After Eating Alligator
Oct 05 3:40 PM US/Eastern

Associated Press
MIAMI

Alligators have clashed with nonnative pythons before in Everglades National Park. But when a 6-foot gator tangled with a 13-foot python recently, the result wasn't pretty.

The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole - and then exploded. Scientists stumbled upon the gory remains last week. . . .

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/05/D8D22OHO4.html

 

Here's the story with a picture included. Brietbart doesn't include pictures.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...ld_environment

 

Better pic here if you actually want to see it . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100501508.html

 

I had a picture in a childhood book of mine, that had a (hand-drawn, hand colored) picture of a big snake that had an alligator pressed up against a tree, and had wrapped himself around the tree and the gator- squeezing the life out of him.

I thought that was cool back then-but, imagine being the gator...

You're swimming along, minding your own business, reasonably sure that as far as the pond goes, you're at the top of the food chain... Snakes won't even come your way... At least none so far...

Then as you swim, confident in thine own-@$$, somethign big wraps you up, and drags you out of the water- slaps you up against a tree, and squeezes the life from you.. Everytime you exhale, he tightens- giving you less room to breath- until you eventually die from suffocation, or from a rib puncturing a lung or your heart under the crushing pressure...

ANd just think, Pythons are smaller (and less aggressive) than Anacondas...

 

Wow . . . kind of like life.

 

or "Big Brother"...

 

What I find strange is the snakes head was missing?

Maybe another predator was feeding on the snakes head perhaps?

 

yea, it was the gators brother.

 

No, it was the gator's momma!

 

Wow, that is truly amazing!