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Who won?

Only in Florida...

Gosh, this makes you feel safe while navigating the muck of the Everglades, doesn't it? My only question is similar to "Which came first - the chicken or the egg?" Who won - the gator or the python? Both are now dead...but did the gator tear apart the python while still alive or did the python kill the gator but bite off more than he could chew?

For those that can handle gross stuff, the two leading theories seem to be that either A) the python failed to kill the gator, and he was still alive after being swallowed and tore through the belly of the giant snake or B) the python successfully killed his prey, but the gases created in the digestion/decomposition process by the giant gator were too much for the python and essentially blew him up. Either way, that had to have been rather fascinating to witness.

There are lots of scary things in Florida: big poisonous snakes, chomping alligators, man-eating sharks, ugly spiders, horrific hurricanes and now, loose pet pythons?? Why do people do that - release unwanted pet pythons into the wild? Although apparently, overall, pythons in Florida are reportedly going against nature - which normally dictates that "domesticated" animals don't fare well in the wild. They can fend for themselves, and have become an unexpected predator in the Everglades, throwing off Mother Nature. Well, most of them...with the exception of Pedro the Python above who is all broken up over his lost home.

Orbitron - bet this makes the incident with the little scorpion in your mom's house look like a friendly encounter!

posted by Steph @ 1:16 PM