After being sucked whole, 5-foot alligator is taken out of Python.

• Florida scientists found a Burmese Python that was still intact in a Burmese Python.
• Pythons are able to swallow objects wider than their bodies because of their unique anatomy.
• The invasive snakes are destroying Florida’s natural ecosystems and decimating native species.

A Florida team of scientists cut open a Burmese Python to discover an intact 5-foot alligator. It had been swallowed whole.

Rosie Moore, a geoscientist from Florida, stated in an Instagram November 1 update postThe euthanized python, which had a large stomach, was handed over to a lab to perform a necropsy and collect scientific samples. It was also examined for its diet. She shared a video showing how the alligator was pulled through the stomach of the 18-foot long python.

Moore said that he thought it was gross and was used to necropsies and such. CNNThe scientists were also taking breaks to get out of the room to escape the smell.

The video, set to the slow jam “Hot”Liili, an artist, shows scientists feeling the snake’s lumpy, enlarged body. Then, they cut open its underside to reveal a full alligator underneath another layer of tissue. The scientists then cut the skin and slide out the alligator in a nearly birth-like fashion.

Rosie Moore (@rosiekmoore), contributed this post

Everglades National Park employees killed the python and found it. In Florida, invasive snakes are rampant. wreaking havoc on the ecosystem• Destroying native species.

Moore stated in her post, “These snakes have successfully entered ecologically sensitive areas like Everglades National Park.” Due to their wide dietary preferences, this poses a threat for a variety wildlife.

Mike Kirkland, an invasive species biologist who oversees the South Florida Water Management District’s python elimination program, stated that “they are eating our native wildlife.” Insider. “They outcompete native animals for food.”

Burmese Pythons, one of the world’s largest snakes, may have been released by owners to be released into the wild after they grow too large. Florida has a subtropical climate that is similar to their native Southeast Asian lands, and the lack of predators has allowed the pythons to thrive.

The state now has 100 licensed python huntersThese people are paid to capture and kill snakes.

The pythons are omnivores and eat small mammals in Florida. However they have been documented eating large animals. white-tailed deerAs well as alligators.

Pythons are known to swallow whole their food, and their unique anatomy allows them the ability to do so. jaws to expand wide enough to encapsulate objectsThey are much larger than their bodies.

Rarely, pythons can also swallow humans whole. A missing Indonesian woman aged 54 years old was reported missing last month. swallowed whole by a pythonAccording to police, it was. A scientist in Indonesia claimed that the woman was probably swallowed by a large reticulated Python. These pythons can grow to well over 20 feet in length.

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