A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida’s Everglades National Park explodes after making a meal out of a gator – literally, leaving everyone baffled as to what exactly happened.
Wildlife researchers in South Florida Natural Resources Center found the dead python after it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in the snake’s gastrointestinal tract.
For whatever reason, the head was also missing from the python when it was found, making this scenario even stranger than it already is.
Pythons are known for filling their bellies with some pretty enormous animals, including alligators, but this specific alligator was a bad choice. The gruesome discovery suggests that the python’s feisty last meal might have been simply too much for it to handle.
How in the world this came to manifest is unknown, but several interesting theories have been proposed. Some believe the gator clawed its way out, others think it ruptured from the build-up of gas produced by the decomposing carcass, or possibly another predator attacked the vulnerable snake while weighed down by its gigantic meal.
However this happened, it is definitely one of nature’s mysteries that will remain unknown, and all we can do is speculate a possible explanation for what transpired.
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[Source: Animal Wire]
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