Alligator and python captured tangling on golf course

[left-of-center2012]

Several golfers had their games interrupted in Florida by a highly unusual sight on Friday: a python battling an alligator.

Richard Nadler was one of the golfers to post photos and footage on social media of the surprising encounter at The Golf Club at Fiddler's Creek in Naples.

"'Wild' day on the 10th hole today!" Nadler captioned several photos of the two massive beasts tangled together next to a lake. "That's an alligator and a Burmese python entwined. The alligator seems to have the upper hand."

According to WILX-TV, several witnesses said they saw the alligator eventually drag the python into the water. There was also personnel from the club on hand to prevent anyone from getting too close to the animals.

Nadler told NBC 2 he was rather unfazed by the unsettling sight.

"In this particular golf course, there is a lot of wildlife. It's an absolutely beautiful course, with tons of wildlife. We don't normally see these animals entwined or having a fight or fighting for their life or whatever, but in this case the alligator is wrapped with this python," he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alligator-python-captured-tangle-golf-145033643.html

[hack89]

1. "That's a lot of cowboy boots fighting." nt

[yardwork]

2. Pythons are an invasive species in Florida.

This is not normal wildlife interaction. Pythons aren't supposed to be here. They're killing native animal species.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I seem to remember a reptile store or zoo being flooded during a storm years ago...

and many snake cages were broken-- starting, or adding to, the snake invasion.

When I lived in Tampa, there was the water hyacinth problem.

What's next?

[csziggy]

8. What's next?

Iguanas
Tegus
Cuban tree frogs
Rhesus macaques (with a dangerous form of herpes)
Nutrias
Gambian pouched rats
Monk parakeets
Nile monitor lizards
Squirrel Monkeys
Sambar deer
Vervet Monkeys
More:
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/mammals/
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/birds/
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/reptiles/
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/amphibians/

And then there are the invasive plants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasive_plant_species_in_Florida

[FSogol]

5. So are golf courses.

[yardwork]

6. Yep. And the morons on the golf course who think that this is just nature are morons.

[marylandblue]

3. Somehow I feel this is a metaphor for the Republican Party

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Well, THAT's a new kind of hazard

I wonder if they increase par for the hole?

Wouldn't you love to be the groundskeeper who has to clean this mess up?

[left-of-center2012]

12. Must be that 'water hazard' I hear about?

[BoneyardDem]

9. can you even imagine the number of unretreived balls in the water?

[d_r]

10. I've never said it before and never will again, but

Go Gators!

[dawg]

11. Yeah. A big snake is pretty much what it takes to make me pull for a gator.

[NightWatcher]

14. 2017 SEC and Rose Bowl Champs!!!

[NightWatcher]

13. It's the gop coat of arms. A snake and gator wrestling on a golf course

[dbackjon]

15. Good alligator!!