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Title: Graphic: Enormous Python Takes on Crocodile, Fight Ends in Frightening Fashion
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/g ... pm&utm_content=western-journal
Published: Jul 12, 2019
Author: C. Douglas Golden
Post Date: 2019-07-14 10:32:13 by BTP Holdings
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Graphic: Enormous Python Takes on Crocodile, Fight Ends in Frightening Fashion

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By C. Douglas Golden

Published July 12, 2019 at 10:01am

The animal kingdom often produces rare winners in the natural selection battle. Vultures, for instance, can easily take down calves in a fight by pecking their eyes out and then skinning them alive. (For whatever reason, PETA has not chosen to protest this mistreatment of veal.)

The same thing goes for animals that take down humans. Can you name the deadliest animal on earth? Tiger? Bear? Not even close. Try the mosquito which kills three-quarters of a million people a year. Second place? Humans, who kill another 430,000 humans. Snakes come in at number three.

Those are mostly venomous snakes. Without some poison to back them up, you would figure that snakes would be sitting ducks for crocodiles. After all, crocs are pretty much vicious, razor-toothed barbarians descended from the dinosaurs. Surely even the mighty python can’t dethrone the crocodile, right?

For all I know, if a python and Crocodile were The fight between the olive python and the Australian freshwater crocodile to meet a hundred times, the croc would win 99 of the matchups. However, this time the python managed to not only come out ahead, but it also swallowed the crocodile whole.

The fight between the olive python and the Australian freshwater crocodile was caught on camera by GG Wildlife Rescue in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, and posted on Facebook last month.

I must warn the squeamish that this probably isn’t for you. For everyone else, however, it’s a rare look at some of the surprises that nature provides when two titans collide.

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