{"id":173,"date":"2005-10-06T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2005-10-06T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:58:21","slug":"pythons-vs-alligators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Pythons v.s Alligators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s my kind of match up. <\/p>\n<p>Florida&#8217;s swamps just become more appealing by the moment. Their long-standing reputation for having toothed-logs (otherwsie known as alligators) ready to consume unwary travellers, mob-hit victims, and stunned vampires (see Interview With The Vampire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;tag=theothersid0c-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;path=ASIN\/B00006JY5R\/qid=1128603341\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\">UK link<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=theothersid0c-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=theothersid08-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004RFFS?v=glance%26n=130%26n=507846%26s=dvd%26v=glance\">US link<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theothersid08-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>) is now being enhanced further by their suitability as a breeding ground for the Burmese python. <\/p>\n<p>The pythons love the climate and have inevitably found themselves a bit of serious hunting when they have grown big enough to need a lot of meat and consequently taken on the indigenous alligator population. In the latest clash a 6 foot alligator was eaten whole by a 13 foot python. We only know about this happening because the python&#8217;s stomach exploded, leaving the alligator&#8217;s tail sticking out in a very odd multi-tailed twist on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.im\/lib\/images\/isleofman\/legs.jpg\">Isle of Man flag<\/a>. It&#8217;s possible that the alligator was still alive when eaten and clawed through the stomach but was too tired to escape after killing the python. Blimey. It&#8217;s also possible that pythons will become the top of the food chain in Florida when they get big enough to take on the rest of the scaley bunch.<\/p>\n<p>So, who&#8217;s for a trip to the Everglades?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4313978.stm\">More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s my kind of match up. Florida&#8217;s swamps just become more appealing by the moment. Their long-standing reputation for having toothed-logs (otherwsie known as alligators) ready to consume unwary travellers, mob-hit victims, and stunned vampires (see Interview With The Vampire UK link US link) is now being enhanced further by their suitability as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pythons v.s Alligators<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-2N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}