Snake tries to eat Alligator!

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Snake tries to eat Alligator!

Postby Maaarf on Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:55 am

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

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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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Postby cyanide on Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:23 am

Holy shit, that is insane! Wow, I've never seen anything like it, or even thought that would be possible. Thanks for sharing.
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Postby Jing on Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:17 am

oh damn man, i was staring at that image for ages trying to figure out what the hell was what and stuff.
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Postby Jona on Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:41 am

As Cy said, unbelieveable.
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Postby Wormy10 on Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:12 am

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

EDIT: Nevermind

EDIT #2: I dont see shit, just a green smiley
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Postby Cable on Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:18 am

That video is a little disturbing :?
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Postby Jackal on Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:39 pm

I dont see shit, just a green smiley

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Postby zmac on Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:51 pm

I can see the pic fine, but I cant understand which bit is which....its still quite disturbing though. :?
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Postby Cloudy on Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:24 pm

It's disgusting, snakes..the evil ones, are always so greedy.
Stupid snake, deserved to burst. Fuck snakes, damn... I hate them.
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Postby Matt on Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:30 am

major ownage
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Postby cyanide on Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:49 am

Matt wrote:major ownage


For who? :lol: They both got pwned.
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Postby BMG on Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:31 am

gross!
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Postby Wormy10 on Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:48 am

Jackal wrote:
I dont see shit, just a green smiley

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Thanks Jackal
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Postby Drex on Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:48 am

:lol: Stupid snake...
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Postby Riot on Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:52 am

WOW...that's one big snake
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Postby Jowe on Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:44 pm

And the thing is , they don't know how many pythons there are in that area. ..
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Postby Riot on Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:46 pm

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.
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Postby Jona on Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:00 am

Riot wrote: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.
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Postby Matt on Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:57 am

My dad said


lol, i just found this funny
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Postby Riot on Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:37 am

Yeah, I live with my dad. So what? My dad is the one who told me about it. :wink:
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Postby Jackal_ on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:01 am

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


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..
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Postby Wormy10 on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:31 am

"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"
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Postby Jackal_ on Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:17 am

Wormy10 wrote:"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"


Hehehe nice water boy quote :)
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Postby Riot on Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:23 am

Legend wrote:
Wormy10 wrote:"Momma said alligators are so honory because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush"


Hehehe nice water boy quote :)


*Water Boy
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Postby Jackal_ on Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:25 am

Riot wrote:
Legend wrote:
Wormy10 wrote:"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
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