A python and a gator wrestled in Florida, the result was epic

[TexasTowelie]

Some days, you get the snake. And, some days, the snake has you for lunch.

A roughly 15-foot Burmese python and a 6-foot alligator tangled in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida recently. A reporter from the Palm Beach Post happened by and captured the romp in the swamp on video.

The 7-minute clip is epic in an "old horror movie featuring dueling monsters" sort of way.

More than 2,000 pythons have been removed from Everglades National Park since 2002, but the creatures are reproducing faster than managers can catch them.

Learn the outcome and watch the video at http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/A-python-and-a-gator-wrestled-in-Florida-the-10847498.php .

[underpants]

1. Awesome

Thanks.

[TexasTowelie]

2. You're welcome.

This would have been great on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

[longship]

3. Marlin Perkins would be right in there.

Or, maybe not.

But Steve Irwin would be shouting, "that alligator -- such a beauty -- is just gone! Swallowed whole!"

(I haven't viewed the video yet, so my post is just a prediction of the outcome, not a spoiler.)

There's a real chance that Marlin Perkins would get swallowed whole. What a beauty!

[cyclonefence]

4. We visit the Everglades once or twice a year

It is magnificent. The pythons that have been released (overgrown pets) have killed 99% of the mammals in the Everglades. There are no more deer, raccoon, possums, panthers, and fewer and fewer alligators are surviving infancy. Last time we were there, our guide told us that the park management had held several multi-day hunts to try to at least reduce the python population, but they were not able to make a dent. The plan was to bring over Burmese python hunters to see if they could do any better.

I did not watch the video. The idea sickens me. Those pythons are destroying an ecological system that had been in balance for thousands and thousands, if not millions, of years.

[spin]

5. Reminds me of an episode of Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom. ...