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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tour guides and visitors alike were stunned to see an alligator swimming with an oversized Burmese python through Florida’s Everglades National Park. Video taken in late ...
Video shows 12-foot alligator dragging python in Everglades "I have seen many alligators eating pythons out here....I have never, ever, ever seen a python that large," Alvarez said.
A 2012 study suggested that in Everglades National Park, pythons were responsible for a decline of 85% to 100% of the population of medium-sized animals such as raccoons and rabbits.
The earliest python sightings in Florida date back to the 1930s and although Burmese pythons were first sighted in Everglades National Park in the 1990s, they were not officially recognized as a reproducing population until 2000. [1] Since then, the number of python sightings has exponentially increased with over 30,000 sightings from 2008 to 2010.
Pythons have overwhelmed the marshes, flatwoods, tree islands, prairies and mangrove swamp ecosystems of the Everglades and Big Cypress throughout Miami-Dade, Monroe and Collier counties.
It was the first year of the challenge and the same year a study in Everglades National Park suggested pythons were responsible for a decline of 85% to 100% of the population of medium-sized furry ...
That happened Wednesday, Dec. 20, in the Shark Valley area of Everglades National Park, when a 10- or 11-foot alligator was seen trying to swallow an equally large python.
The Burmese python invasion started with releases — intentional or not — of captive snakes, which likely gained a foothold in Everglades National Park by the mid-1980s, according to the 2021 ...