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An [[urban legend]] [[website]], [[Snopes]], suggests that after ingesting the alligator, the snake was possibly cut open and beheaded by another individual (either a human or another predator). Snopes also proposes that a gas build-up caused by the decomposing alligator could have ruptured the snake's body, and that its head was eaten by scavengers.

The news report highlighted the concern held by wildlife biologists that the the Burmese Python might [[Invasive species|spread across the Southern United States]], where it finds a suitable climate, and become prohibitively expensive or wholly impossible to eradicate. This would threaten native ecosystems and vulnerable species. Breeding populations from escaped specimens or specimens released by overwhelmed owners are found already in the Everglades, the [[Big Cypress]] and on [[Key Largo]]. [http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1875]

spread across the Southern United States]], where it finds a suitable climate, and become prohibitively expensive or wholly impossible to eradicate. This would threaten native ecosystems and vulnerable species. Breeding populations from escaped specimens or specimens released by overwhelmed owners are found already in the Everglades, the [[Big Cypress]] and on [[Key Largo]]. [http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1875]

==See also==