A Florida group of scientists cut open a Burmese Python to discover an intact 5-foot (1.55 meter) alligator. It had been completely swallowed.
Rosie Moore is a geoscientist from Florida who shared her thoughts in an Instagram post on November 1. PostThe euthanized python was given to a lab to perform a necropsy and collect scientific samples. It also had a bulging stomach.
She shared a video where the alligator was removed from the stomach of an 18-foot-long Python.
Moore said that he thought the incident was gross. He is used to necropsies. CNNThe scientists took breaks to escape the room to rid themselves of the smell, he said.
Curiously, the video is set to the slow jam “Hot”Artist Liili shows scientists feeling the snake’s lumpy, enlarged body, before cutting open its bottom to reveal the full alligator underneath another layer of tissue.
The scientists then cut the open skin and slide out the alligator in a sequence almost resembling a birth.
Everglades National Park employees found the python, and they killed it. In Florida, the invasive snakes are rampant. It is causing havoc on the ecosystem• Destroying native species.
Moore explained that the snakes had invaded ecologically sensitive areas like Everglades National Park. Post.
“This is a threat to many wildlife species, because of the pythons wide dietary preferences.”
Mike Kirkland, an invasive species biologist and manager of the South Florida Water Management District’s python elimination program, stated that “they are eating our native animals.” Insider.
“They are also outcompeting native species for food.”
Burmese pythons are some of the largest snakes on the planet. This could be because people released their pets when they got too big.
The pythons have flourished in Florida because they are protected from predators and enjoy a subtropical climate similar to their homeland of Southeast Asia.
The state now has 100 licensed python huntersThey are paid to capture and kill snakes.
The pythons eat a variety of animals and have been known to eat small mammals in Florida. They have also been recorded eating large animals like pigeons. White-tailed deerAlligators, too.
Pythons are known to swallow whole their food, and their unique anatomy makes it possible for them to do so. Jaws that expand to encapsulate objectsMuch larger than the circumferences of their bodies.
In rare cases, pythons may swallow humans whole.
Last month, a 54-year-old Indonesian woman was missing. A python swallows it wholeAccording to police
According to a scientist from Indonesia, the woman was likely swallowed up by a reticulated Python. This python can grow up well above 20 feet.
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