Reptilian War
Toxic pythons
An American alligator and a Burmese python locked in a struggle at Everglades National Park, USA.
Southern Florida has a big problem on its hands thousands of them, in fact. A burgeoning population of invasive Burmese pythons has been gobbling up native wildlife in and around the Everglades. Now evidence is accumulating that the snakes, which can reach more than 20-feet (6 meters) long and weigh upwards of 200 pounds (90 kilograms), are contaminated with strikingly high levels of mercury, and managers are urging python hunters to think twice before eating their quarry. Scientists are now trying to figure out how these predators became such sinks for toxic mercury, though it may just be a sign of the metal pollution in the Everglades where the snakes now live. Source: Live Science
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