Python eats alligator, then explodes

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Ah, the Everglades

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

i read boom boom too

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

BBC, Boom Boom, it's all the same.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm having difficulty understanding that picture

― emilys. (emilys.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

snake head in the water, snake bent in half at the mid section

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

this is crazy! so there's now a wild mini-population of non-native pythons in the everglades?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Both would cower before the might of an acid-spitting titanium-reinforced landshark.

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Today there was a story on CNN about a 13 ft CROCODILE capture in a garage in S. Florida. I didn't think crocs were native to N. America, just alligators. They went out of their way to show it was a croc, not a gator. It sounded like the croc was released into the Everglades after capture. Reptiles gone amok.

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

well actually the american crocodile is native to florida, it has a very small population though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

We've had a pesky adn troublesome 'gator in a small lake in a local park in Harbor City. Somebody let 'im loose in there and he's having a gay ol' time swimming around and eating ducks.

Quick, anybody got a python handy!?!?!?!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cinema.com/image_lib/3457_005_thumb.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

That picture is so fucking bizarre... Talk about a biological WTF moment. Gary Larson couldn't come up with anything odder.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

i got swallowed by a python once. stinkin ipod wouldn't work so i had to elbow my way out to finish listening to the remastered versions of the schnappsy socks' "co". thank god for slim jims. stupid birds.

― russell umpian (mspa), Thursday, 6 October 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

http://blogs.herald.com/photos/uncategorized/gator.JPG

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

I still can't figure that picture out.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

left and up: snake. Coming out the middle, heading towards the right is the gator's tail. Bottom is one of it's back legs.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

It did take rather a while as all the scales blend into one another. I don't envy the person who has to dispose of it. Will they cook up a *yummy* scaley stew, or stick it in a museum, or conduct scientific research to create a super clone reptile? One word -GODZILLA.

― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

O. I C....

For some reason I'd got it into my head that the aligator ate the python, which explains why the pic was so confusing.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Remember "The Meaning of Life" where a Python ate too much in one of the scenes and exploded? I wonder if the Britishes or Terry Gilliam have anything to do with this.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

"Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species," Prof Mazzotti said.

how is this not obvious?

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.canddvisionaryinc.com/images/limage/prod21/psim0056.jpg

― feminazi (feminazi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Gross.

Stupid fucking animal.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

X-post

Yes, but it was said by an EXPERT and all science or nature news stories need a quote from an EXPERT wearing a WHITE COAT to show how terrible it all is.

"Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species," the bloke I sometimes have a pint with in my local O'Neils said

doesn't have the same ring, even if it is just as obvious.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Who would win a fight between a horse and a monkey?

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

isn't the obvious subtext of prof. Mazotti's statement OMG THEY COULD EAT YOU!!!111111!!!111!!1!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I had indian food the other night and totally felt like this afterward.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

what, that the curry was so hot it could have eaten you?

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

maybe this thread is more appropriate?
How do you poo?
xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

nah, it was just so good I cleaned my plate, plus my stomach is battling for real estate with my womb these days. I wish it had been a bit hotter actually.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

mmm, the womb....

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

This is totally fake. Some little boys made this up.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Gary Larson couldn't come up with anything odder.

Hahaha thats so true. I'm thinking of that panel of his with the pet shop disaster with the guy strangled by the python with an octopus on his head, and the cockatoo in the background going "warrk! Get it off! Help!" (or whatever).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

it was that dude on the right
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/08/costume_ent-lead__200x285,0.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

How come the snake's head disappeared? this i can't figure out. Did it explode too?

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

The alligator ate the python's head then crawled inside the body to keep warm

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

but then died itself. it's like romeo and juliet

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Some scavenger/predator type creature ate the snake's head, I presume.

I was grossed out by the photo at first, but I just looked at it again, and cracked up laughing. Terrible!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Which end was the snake's head at? Did it start eating the alligator at the tail end, or did it swallow the head first? And how did it stop it from thrashing? Was there constriction? So. Many. Questions.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

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― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I just laughed so much I had to rush to the lav to avoid peeing myself.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 7 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

This story, as compelling as it is, just makes me want to barf and keep barfing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

I would have imagined the same.. but that picture is just so far disconnected from reality, that it's just.. comical. It really is a Far Side cartoon come to life. In the same way that, while I'm very fearful of heights, I have no fear of looking out a window of an airplane because I'm so far disconnected from what's going on in the ground, I am this far disconnected from that picture.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

i just think its crazy that theres now a population of escaped pythons in florida. i guess its not big enough to disrupt the ecosystem (and the environment isn't too different from the python's native habitats anyway), but still. crazy!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

latebloomer otm. here's a little more info on 'em: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10/22/predators.in.paradise/

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2005/3/reptilefeature.cfm

― Lingbertt, Friday, 7 October 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

hi
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/YearinReview/photos/02_B_02.jpg

― Lingbertt, Friday, 7 October 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

What's that gooey white stuff between the gator's legs?

― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

one of these Caterpillar eats lion. Caterpillar explodes. [NSFW but well worth your time]

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

pwnthon

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 8 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

xxpost cum

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

a second gator assassin? calll oliver stone!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

that croc don't hunt

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

what really happened on that swampy knoll?

― señor citizen (eman), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5237642,00.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Python eats sheep: "Kuala Lumpur urban myths usually turn out to be just that, unless you're talking about the python and its amazing appetite. The giant reptiles eat no more than once a week, but when they open their incredible hinged jaws anything is fair game. On Tuesday, a 6m, 90kg python swallowed a pregnant ewe in the village of Kampung Jabor, about 200km east of Kuala Lumpur. It was too laden to move, and firemen easily caught it, the local newspaper reported. Humans also have become victims. In 1972 a python in Burma ate an eight-year-old boy. As evidence pythons will tackle almost anything, a 4m monster took on an alligator in Everglades National Park in Florida last October - and came off second best. The snake apparently tried to swallow the 2m alligator whole and then exploded, scientists found when they stumbled on the gory remains."

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

that's a reticulated python too, the world's longest snake.

(the anaconda is the heaviest snake, and second-longest)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

From a story about adventurer Lawrence Blair in Bali, in The Age Good Weekend Magazine:

"For years The Jakarta Post used to run front-page photos of wild pythons ... cut open with people inside - dead, of course. Some new delicacy prevails; they now restrict the reports to text."

― salexandra (salexander), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Heart holds mouth to words
Said it's gone beyond the line this time
Eyes twitch close
Numb the lights turned out I'm out

The cold is in my bones
Said it's gone beyond the line this time
Shake a little off the deep end
Tell me when it's over now

I hate you
Explode and make up
Threw it in the yard
Burned it in an ashtray
I don't need you
Even though it's all made up
Put it in your box and put it

Show me how you been
Said it's been so long, I don't recall
Used to be this way
That's the way it always seems to go

Tired and walked away
Said it's far when you don't have a place to go
Where'd you go
Tell me where am I supposed to go

Here we go, here we go again
There you go, there you go again

As the years
They go slowly bye and bye goodbye
After you, lead the way

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

Python eats sheep

Apparently, the Mirror headline for that story was 'I've got ewe under my skin'.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

did cat REALLY chase bear up tree?

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

there was a team of sniper cats with laser-sighted guns pointed at the bear, who had no choice but to stay in the tree. it was a plot by the freemeowsons to humiliate bearkind.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 11 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

a prrrrfectly executed conspiracy.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 11 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

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