![]() Armed only with muscle power, the nonvenomous shakes can strangle a big gator, and their flexible skin allows a python to slowly engulf even the gnarliest gator without splitting itself wide open. But even their hardened hide and massive size doesn’t always save them from pythons. Sometimes the Gator WinsĪ set of ridged bones called osteoderms combined with the alligator’s thick, horny skin, creates an exterior armor that protects it from most attackers. What happens when they clash, as the videos below prove, is both epic and unpredictable. Both have bad attitudes and big appetites that make it hard for them to back down from a fight. In the other is an armored killing machine that can reach 15 feet, grow to 500 pounds, and exert around 3,000 psi of bite force on anything it traps in its toothy maw. In one corner is a deadly constrictor that can stretch 20 feet long, grow to 200 pounds, and unhinge its jaws to swallow critters that would seem far too big to handle. Loch Ness Monster.īut in South Florida, this throwdown between two of nature’s most powerful apex predators has been playing out in the real-world ever since Burmese pythons began spreading into the American alligator’s Everglades stronghold in the late 1970s. ![]() Python” seems made for Hollywood-a couple of fearsome foes with overlapping territory and competing claims to top-dog status that are bound to rumble.
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