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Zorro

(16,592 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:44 AM Dec 13

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'Shocked' tourists watch as alligator drags huge python carcass, Florida video shows

An alligator put on a grisly holiday show in Florida’s Everglades when it dragged the swollen carcass of a Burmese python past a group of stunned tourists, video shows.

Among those watching was tour guide Kelly Alvarez, who called it “one of the coolest, most impressive sights I have had the pleasure of seeing since working in Everglades National Park.”

It happened around 10:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving, and video shows the alligator gliding past the 70-foot-high Shark Valley Observation Tower with the python dangling from its jaws like pasta.

Alvarez rushed to record the moment, with her sunglasses held in her mouth.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article296454109.html

Go Gators!

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'Shocked' tourists watch as alligator drags huge python carcass, Florida video shows (Original Post) Zorro Dec 13 OP

The alligators are eating bucolic_frolic Dec 13 #1

they're helping eliminate an invasive species eShirl Dec 13 #2

I may be a GA fan, but I'm all in for the gators in this case. Those damned invasive snakes have gotta go. hlthe2b Dec 13 #3

Are you referring to the pythons or the Northerners who moved south to Wonder Why Dec 13 #4

Well, that's a lot of invasive species... Take your pick. hlthe2b Dec 13 #6

Well, that's good news! Our native gators are eating invasive exotic snakes. A win-win for the environment. Martin68 Dec 13 #5

Go gators ! Next up -- monitors and iguanas. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 13 #7

Sometimes you eat the bear... JoseBalow Dec 13 #8

bucolic_frolic

(47,951 posts)

1. The alligators are eating

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:47 AM

Dec 13

they're just not eating the right things.

eShirl

(18,908 posts)

2. they're helping eliminate an invasive species

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:52 AM

Dec 13

hlthe2b

(107,227 posts)

3. I may be a GA fan, but I'm all in for the gators in this case. Those damned invasive snakes have gotta go.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:02 AM

Dec 13

Wonder Why

(4,819 posts)

4. Are you referring to the pythons or the Northerners who moved south to

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:11 AM

Dec 13

become Mar-a-lago lovers?

hlthe2b

(107,227 posts)

6. Well, that's a lot of invasive species... Take your pick.

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 12:03 PM

Dec 13

Martin68

(24,819 posts)

5. Well, that's good news! Our native gators are eating invasive exotic snakes. A win-win for the environment.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 11:54 AM

Dec 13

eppur_se_muova

(37,885 posts)

7. Go gators ! Next up -- monitors and iguanas. nt

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 12:31 PM

Dec 13

JoseBalow

(5,943 posts)

8. Sometimes you eat the bear...

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 03:20 PM

Dec 13

and sometimes the bear eats you.

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