A python with a tracker turned into eaten via way of means of a cottonmouth snake in Florida. The Miami Zoo these days made the sudden discovery at the same time as looking to discover the tracker. It published the X-ray of the indoors of the snake’s stomach with the python internal on Facebook. The photograph suggests the monitoring transmitter that turned into set up at the backbone of the python. The tracker permits zoo body of workers to examine the moves of the snake and manage them. The X-ray additionally suggests that the Burmese python turned into eaten tail-first via way of means of the local snake.
“You can also additionally have heard withinside the information approximately the bobcat that turned into documented stealing and eating eggs from an invasive Burmese python withinside the Everglades. But, that isn’t always the handiest local species this is preventing back! A python that had its monitoring transmitter implanted via way of means of surgeons at Zoo Miami turned into these days discovered to be fed on via way of means of any other snake; a local cottonmouth, additionally called a water moccasin. You can see the backbone and the transmitter of the python internal of the cottonmouth in this x-ray, or radiograph, that turned into taken at Zoo Miami’s animal hospital,” the Miami Zoo stated withinside the Facebook post.
The cottonmouth snake turned into 43-inch-lengthy and it ate the 39-inch Burmese python.
Newsweek reached out to the zoo, which stated the incident because the local species “preventing back” in opposition to the invasive python.
Facebook customers have been taken aback after seeing the photographs. “Florida local species constructed different” one person commented. “Look at this craziness!” stated any other.
The Burmese python is a huge non-venomous species taken into consideration invasive in Florida. They are discovered in Everglades environment and had been detrimental the wetland environment for decades.
Earlier this month, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission hosted a venture to seek the Burmese pythons wherein loads of humans took part.