Python vs. Alligator

If an alligator and a python were to scrap who do you think would win? Apparently in this fight neither. The python exploded after he'd eaten the alligator. NUTS!!!

AP Sept. 26: The carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown
protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python.

The article said there are a good number of pythons now in the Floriday Everglades. This wasn't a rare battle between the two animals.

In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.

"They were probably evenly matched in size," Mazzotti said of the latest battle. "If the python got a good grip on the alligator before the alligator got a good grip on him, he could win."

While the gator may have been injured before the battle began — wounds were found on it that apparently were not caused by python bites — Mazzotti believes it was alive when the battle began. And it may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it, leading to the blow up.