Snake tries to eat Alligator!

Check This Out! and it's real verified by SNOPES. Just thought it was facinating.

http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/anim ... /burst.jpg

Who's Saurian Now?

Claim: Photograph shows a snake that burst trying to eat an alligator.



Status: True.



Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]



Is this real?








Origins: We're used to the idea that snakes can distend their jaws to swallow food many times the size of their own heads, but we're not quite used to idea that they might literally eat themselves to death trying to swallow prey too big for their own good (and body size).



That's evidently what happened in the above-displayed photo taken in Florida's Everglades National Park on 26 September 2005. A 13-foot Burmese python attempted to swallow a 6-foot American alligator, resulting in both animals' being found dead with the gator's hind end protruding from the snake's burst midsection. It isn't clear whether the python was simply stretched too far trying to swallow the alligator, or the gator clawed a hole in the python with its back legs as the snake attempted to ingest it. (It isn't even clear whether the alligator was still alive at the time the snake encountered it, or whether the python merely came across and ate a gator that had already died or been killed by something else.)



Three other gator-python encounters have been documented in the past three years, all of which ended with the gator's successfully escaping from or killing its serpentine attacker.



Last updated: 5 October 2005

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Last edited by Maaarf on Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Holy shit, that is insane! Wow, I've never seen anything like it, or even thought that would be possible. Thanks for sharing.

oh damn man, i was staring at that image for ages trying to figure out what the hell was what and stuff.
crazy

As Cy said, unbelieveable.
Great find.

The pic is gone now I saw it earlier, where is it?

EDIT: Nevermind

EDIT #2: I dont see shit, just a green smiley

That video is a little disturbing

I dont see shit, just a green smiley

Copy & paste the adress in a new window.

I can see the pic fine, but I cant understand which bit is which....its still quite disturbing though.

It's disgusting, snakes..the evil ones, are always so greedy.
Stupid snake, deserved to burst. Fuck snakes, damn... I hate them.

major ownage

major ownage

For who? They both got pwned.

gross!

I dont see shit, just a green smiley

Copy & paste the adress in a new window.

Thanks Jackal
Damn

Stupid snake...
Nice find

WOW...that's one big snake

And the thing is , they don't know how many pythons there are in that area. ..

My dad said it's because people let out their pet pythons because they don't want them as pets anymore. Pythons aren't a known species around that area.

My dad said it's because people let out their pet pythons because they don't want them as pets anymore. Pythons aren't a known species around that area.

That's a pretty feasible explanation, the environment in the swamps is great for successful reproduction.

My dad said

lol, i just found this funny

Yeah, I live with my dad. So what? My dad is the one who told me about it.

Yeah, I live with my dad. So what? My dad is the one who told me about it.

Do you play cowboys and indians with your dad?


About the video.. thats fucked up.. I didnt even think snakes could be that big.. a friend of mine lives in california and said he saw a snake swallow a cat whole.. thats fucked..

"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"

"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"

Hehehe nice water boy quote

"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"

Hehehe nice water boy quote

*Water Boy

"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"

Hehehe nice water boy quote

*Water Boy

you're really bored today arent you? lol