11-foot alligator eats useless python in Florida Everglades
A useless python was captured being eaten by an alligator at Everglades National Park in Florida.
A bike owner got here throughout the aftermath of an epic Florida predators battle within the Everglades, capturing close-up footage of an alligator consuming a python.
According to a put up in standard Facebook group Alligators of Florida and first reported by the Miami Herald, Alison Joslyn on Wednesday noticed an alligator roughly 10-feet lengthy mendacity nonetheless on the Shark Valley loop. The alligator was snarled within the lengthy, thick snake, with the snake’s head disappearing within the alligator’s jaws.
“At first I thought it was dead. Then he opened an eye and looked at me!” Joslyn instructed USA TODAY in a message Friday. She stated she bought inside six toes of it to seize the photographs, passing it thrice on her journey. It solely moved as soon as.
She requested the alligator fanatic group why it may need been so nonetheless. She questioned if it was torpid from the chilly, drained from wrestling the snake or if it bought injured from a chew.
Pythons are non-venomous snakes however kill their prey by crushing it with their our bodies. In reality, a Palm Beach Post reporter, a part of the USA TODAY Network, as soon as caught a python strangling an alligator to demise on video. Some pythons may additionally kill a human and swallow it entire.
Florida’s invasive species: Can alligators assist management Florida’s python inhabitants? A brand new research offers clues
Florida alligator neighborhood cheers on alligator
Burmese pythons are an invasive species which have bulldozed by Florida’s native species, throwing off prey populations as they eat practically every part of their path.
Members of the Facebook group cheered on the alligator for caring for the python. Florida state pays individuals to kill pythons just like the alligator did.
“Love to see this! He will get an unique meal and helps the setting multi function!” Ryan Moore wrote on the put up.
“I’m so glad the gator killed the snake. I do know they’re simply making an attempt to stay, however, they’re an invasive species and have wreaked havoc on the animals of the Everglades,” Debbie Collins commented. “I LOVE the Everglades!”
“That’s one much less python to terrorize the Everglades,” Joslyn wrote in her put up, which has garnered practically 200 feedback and 1,000 reactions.
Contributing: Sean Rossman, USA TODAY; Joe Capozzi, Palm Beach Post; Chad Gillis, News Press
