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Python Vs. Cottonmouth.. place your bets
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:11 pm
If you bet python, you lose…..
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(Disclaimer: the cottonmouth was slightly larger than the python so a full grown cottonmouth versus a preteen Python. Still, a pretty cool story.)
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A python with a tracker was eaten by a cottonmouth snake in Florida — and the slithery meal was caught on x-ray. The Miami Zoo posted a photo of the amazing x-ray on its Facebook account.
"You may have heard in the news about the bobcat that was documented stealing and consuming eggs from an invasive Burmese python in the Everglades," Miami Zoo captioned the post. "But, that isn't the only native species that is fighting back! A python that had its tracking transmitter implanted by surgeons at Zoo Miami was recently found to be consumed by another snake; a native cottonmouth, also known as a water moccasin. You can see the spine and the transmitter of the python inside the cottonmouth on this x-ray, or radiograph, that was taken at Zoo Miami's animal hospital."
The Miami Zoo said it was tracking the Burmese python, but were unable to find it until they made an unexpected discovery. The python with the tracker device was instead found in a slightly larger native cottonmouth snake.
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(Disclaimer: the cottonmouth was slightly larger than the python so a full grown cottonmouth versus a preteen Python. Still, a pretty cool story.)
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:17 pm to Darth_Vader
Interesting story, wanted to watch video.
Link goes to Fox News and video on landing page doesn’t discuss story fyi.
Link goes to Fox News and video on landing page doesn’t discuss story fyi.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:21 pm to Nephropidae
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:21 pm to LSUGrrrl
“ The x-ray image shows a 43-inch cottonmouth that ate a 39-inch Burmese python in the Florida Everglades.
The spine of the Burmese snake was consumed first, according to the x-ray, with the curving spine of the python stretched out inside the engorged cottonmouth. The image also shows the radio transmitter that was attached to the python when it was consumed.”
The spine of the Burmese snake was consumed first, according to the x-ray, with the curving spine of the python stretched out inside the engorged cottonmouth. The image also shows the radio transmitter that was attached to the python when it was consumed.”
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:28 pm to Darth_Vader
The story doesn’t say - is the zoo implanting tracking devices then letting pythons loose? Doesn’t seem like a great idea if they are trying to eradicate them.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:29 pm to Python
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Python
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quite literally...
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:32 pm to Darth_Vader
I usually root for the home team so yay, go moccasin!!
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:33 pm to rmc
They tag females that they then track during mating season. The female attracts males, the trackers go in and take out multiple non-native snakes at once.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:33 pm to Darth_Vader
That will be one massive dump later.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:33 pm to LSUGrrrl
Native species for the win!
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:34 pm to Darth_Vader
That's a big ole water moccasin.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:35 pm to turkish
quote:Sounds a lot riskier and a lot more work than just taking out the female while you have her.
They tag females that they then track during mating season. The female attracts males, the trackers go in and take out multiple non-native snakes at once.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:36 pm to rmc
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Doesn’t seem like a great idea if they are trying to eradicate them.
Hmm.
Maybe getting intel then once the behavior is known then you can devise a plan for more targeted strikes.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:44 pm to Darth_Vader
Well, that’s a big, healthy water moccasin and a juvenile python. Someone should point out that that cottonmouth is a very poisonous snake and one that size biting a human could make said human very, very sick or possibly dead. Unless asiatic constrictor snakes have some immunity to North American pit viper venom, that little old python was probably dead in short order after being bit.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 8:47 pm to turkish
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:08 pm to Darth_Vader
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native cottonmouth, also known as a water moccasin
That’s a congo baw
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:15 pm to Walter E Kurtz
quote:That makes a lot more sense.
They tag the males that lead them to the females
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:33 pm to GumboPot
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That's a big ole water moccasin.
Not to mention Cottonmouths are definitely the dicks of the snake world.
An aside about cottonmouths: I once treated a dog honestly 8x for snake bites over two years. After the third time, I asked the owners what the hell was going on, and apparently this pitbull absolutely hated the snakes and would hunt them as her owners lived beside wetlands. First time antivenin saved her life, the second she nearly died from a reaction to the antivenin, and by the 5th time, she barely swelled up at all and one could probably use her blood as antivenin therapy. i have sinced moved away, but I imagine that dog is still happily hunting the snakes, especially now that she is damn near immune to them.
Posted on 8/25/22 at 9:39 pm to Darth_Vader
A cottonmouth would easily frick up a Python. Cottonmouths are aggressive as hell.
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