Python Eating Alligator Caught on Camera [Watch]

If you’ve never seen an alligator fight a python, well, you’re missing out.

Both alligators and pythons are formidable predators, each with their own evolutionary strengths. With the recent explosion in the number of pythons in the Florida Everglades, there have been more and more encounters recorded between pythons and alligators.

With this in mind, The Niger Times thought it would be interesting to see if one of these animals has a measurable advantage over the other.

Before we go into conclusions  let’s watch these bad boys in action:



Though the Python  won this time around the primary factor that determines which of these two reptiles will win in a fight, is their relative size.

According to Trivals a full grown alligator will almost always defeat a young python, and vice versa.

As Michael Dorcas of Davidson College told BBC,

We have documented pythons eating alligators, we have also documented alligators eating pythons. It depends on who is biggest during the encounter.