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Hi
Tonight at 8pm on national geographic channel its "Python vs. Gator" it looks real interesting , I only saw the commercial but looks good.

I'll go ahead and ruin the ending...

Gator = Dead

Python = Exploded and dead

It looks like the python didnt "blow up" by eating the gator after all. The theory makes lots of sense .

Couldn't see the program. What exactly are you all talking about?
Thanks

That python that was found in Everglades in Florida it ate an alligator looked like it 'blew up".

The show was about Pythons in the Everglades and how they are doing well there . It was also an "investigation " on why the python burst after eating the alligator.

Some scientist think what actually happened was that the python was digesting its food and slow due to that and another alligator attacked it . Thats what caused the python to rip on the side and thats why it had no head . It looked like a tear on the side not a burst from within.

this is the pic if you didnt see it -

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html

I go to Glades now and than thats why interested in the story (I dont keep pythons myself ) . I have never seen a python only albino and piebald boas . Lol kidding though some have caught Albino pythons but I never saw any non native snakes but have seen tegu or monitor not sure what it was as it ran away eating dead racoon and Chamaleons (African import types).

np

Is it even possible for it to "burst as there saying"? I could see it maybe ripping or tearing but just to burst open.
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Pat
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