Alligator vs. Burmese Python - A reptilian battle over the Everglades

via pbs.org

The above remarkable video footage is part of the excellent, and frightening, new documentary "Invasion of the Giant Pythons" that aired on PBS's Nature program last night.

Burmese Pythons transported and bred halfway across the planet for sale to people who want them as pets without apparently any notion of how big the beasts can get, and who then release them into the wilds of Florida, again without any thought as to how seriously they are fracking up the Everglades ecosystem while "solving" their little growing pet problem! Isn't it remarkable how many astonishing ways we find to screw up the ecosystems on this lovely little planet we inhabit? Watch the whole film, which I imagine will be available online soon.

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