Sunday, October 09, 2005
Take them down with you
Rangers at the Everglades National Park in South Florida recently discovered a gruesome scene in an isolated marsh involving carcasses of a 13-foot Burmese python and a 6-foot American alligator. The alligator's tail and rear legs were sticking out from the ruptured body of a python which apparently was trying to swallow the gator whole. The snake was missing its head, and a necropsy revealed wounds on the gator's head and large chunks of gator skin inside the snake's stomach.
Biologists and reptile experts were trying to figure out the sequence of this battle to the death between these two fierce creatures. One theory was that the gator wasn't quite dead when the snake swallowed it, and it kept kicking with its hind legs and sharp claws until it tore away the snake's head and midsection. Another theory was that the gator was already dead but it was so large that it simply suffocated the snake from within, or its decay generated so much gas build-up that it caused a catastrophic explosion killing the snake.
So the moral of today's story is:
"If you can't beat them, get even"
And from the Peter Gabriel song:
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 6:22 AM
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The alligator picture is too gross for me, but the frog cartoon is hilarious.
# posted by 
: 09 October, 2005 10:18
: 09 October, 2005 10:18
Cool pictures. I would have loved to watch the fight between those 2 guys. Probably like gladiator fights.
# posted by : 09 October, 2005 10:45
: 09 October, 2005 10:45
Agree with anon. Put a python and a gator in a cage at the zoo. I'll bet that'll sell tickets.
# posted by : 09 October, 2005 13:42
: 09 October, 2005 13:42
Unbelievable. Sounds like something right out of a budget monster movie.
# posted by : 09 October, 2005 17:34
: 09 October, 2005 17:34
John,
I thought King Kong and Godzilla were from different periods. But a quick Google search showed how wrong I was. One of them must have built a time machine.
And yes, that python vs alligator battle would have been awesome to watch.
I thought King Kong and Godzilla were from different periods. But a quick Google search showed how wrong I was. One of them must have built a time machine.
And yes, that python vs alligator battle would have been awesome to watch.
r.j.,
You can enlarge the picture by clicking on it. Most of what you see is the python except for the tail of the alligator which protrudes through an opening in the belly of the snake (the alligator goes from roughly the middle of the picture toward 5 o'clock).
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You can enlarge the picture by clicking on it. Most of what you see is the python except for the tail of the alligator which protrudes through an opening in the belly of the snake (the alligator goes from roughly the middle of the picture toward 5 o'clock).
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