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Slithering Across America

  • Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service
  • U.S. Geological Survey
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  • An American alligator and a Burmese python locked in a struggle to prevail in Everglades National Park. This python appears to be losing, but snakes in similar situations have apparently escaped unharmed, and in other situations pythons have eaten alligators.
  • Areas of the continental United States with climates matching those of Burmese pythons' native ranges in Asia.
  • Projected climates in the continental United States in the year 2100, based on global-warming models, that match climatea in the pythons' native ranges in Asia.
  • The carcass of an American alligator protrudes from the corpse of a Burmese python in Everglades National Park, Fla., in 2004. The snake swallowed the alligator, then burst, killing both.
  • Another shot of the python and alligator locked in their mutual death embrace, along with the helicopter of the pilot who spotted them, in Everglades National Park.
  • They're cute when they're young: A Burmese python hatchling held in a human hand in a 2005 file photo.
  • Wildlife biologists capture a Burmese python in Everglades National Park in a 2006 file photo.
  • Houdin, a 12-foot adult Burmese python, in a 2006 file photo.

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