At War in Florida or just best buds a-cruising the ‘Glades?

I discovered this strange new phenomenon that is happening in Florida - the alligators and the pythons are at war with each other (“Python Explodes After Eating Alligator”). I know that it is nature in action; all a part of Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest, but … I did not know that there were pythons in Florida. Whew .. am I glad I moved north from there some years ago.

The good news is that, at times, the alligators are winning. Who would have ever thunk that it would come to this - us rooting for the alligator! What a good thing it is that we saved him from extinction. Otherwise, those pythons would be coming up on land to feed on cats, dogs and … horrors … lil chilluns. That still may happen … if the pythons finish off the ‘gator.

The bad news is that the alligator is the only wildlife that is capable of besting the python - mano a mano, so to speak. Pythons eat everything else that swims, crawls, slithers, flies or walks and they need a high protein diet of fresh meat to sustain their six to more than twenty feet length and girth of up to 200 pounds.

Where did they come from? Thank you exotic pet shops of America for adding to our natural habitat. You make the guy who released all the birds from Shakespeare’s writings to look like a Mary Poppins (Shakespeare’s Starlings). We look with disdain upon all of those English sparrows and starling pests at our bird feeders, yet we don’t fear them. Twenty-foot pythons are another story.

Predators in paradise
Internet Images of Burmese Pythons
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