American Alligator and Python fight to the death

One more different animal capture... You get very interesting animals shoot... Fantastic capture and shoot... Great work...

 

All the best, Jill

Thanks for looking !

 

Jose

Thank you all for the feedback , this fight actually took place in the Everglades National park on 12/24/05 . I was actually 25 miles from the park doing my last minute Chirstmas shopping , when a fellow photographer called me from the park and told me about this battle that had been going on for more than 6 hours . I got to park and proceeded to shoot for more than 2 hours . The fight ended when the Alligator took the snake under the water and disappeared . Two days later I found the alligator close to the same spot with the dead snake in his mouth .

Very interesting situation well photographed.

José

 

A nice photograph but a sad consequence of the irresponsible snake keeping of foreign species!

 

But, any way , interesting photographs to be used by Wildlife and Park Service!

 

JC

While this battle was going on there were two park rangers , one of them with a 12 gauge shotgun . One of them told me that they had orders to " Destroy " the Python in the event that the alligator failed . She also told me that these snakes have been breeding in the Everglades since the 1980's after irresponsible exotic pet owners dumped them there .

 

Best Regards

 

Jose

This is Jose what I call to be at right place in right time. Dramatic subject indeed and I admire your courage to approach them, both snakes and crocodiles are not exactly animals I would like to have close to me. Very well done!

I am always photographing alligators and have a few photos up of them so I did a search on the site to see what else was here and found this.  WOW!  I am sooooo happy the alligator won this battle.  Had it been a smaller gator I think the result would have been different unfortunately.  Great job.

Very interesting and impressive capture!