Last week, we reported on the Florida Python Challenge 2022 where 800 snake hunters showed up to help control the population of the invasive Burmese python. The python has really put the spanking on the ecosystem throughout Florida as females can lay up to 50 eggs.
It appears that Florida’s ecosystem is correcting itself as Zoo Miami recently reported that a Burmese python and its tracker were eaten by another snake: a Florida cottonmouth.
Invasive Burmese Python Eaten by Cottonmouth in Florida – Also Eaten Was Its Tracker
To get the visual, the Burmese Python tends to grow to 16 feet in the wild while the Florida cottonmouth can get up to 6 feet in length. Zoo Miami had the x-rays of the 43-inch cottonmouth which ate the 39-inch python. They had been tracking the python for a while before losing it before the tracker turned up inside the cottonmouth.
On the Zoo Miami Facebook the x-ray was explained in detail:
“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. 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.”
If you’re curious, the cottonmouth was able to pass the transmitter without complication.
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