Florida Bobcat Turns Predator: Devours Giant 13-Foot Python in Unprecedented Hunt
All in all, it seems like an encouraging sign to biologists like Bartoszek. Though he was “a little emotional” to lose Loki, a snake he had been tracking for six years, Loki’s death is a positive sign and an indication that natural predators in Florida have started hunting pythons, an invasive species.
“A 25-pound cat killed and cached a 52-pound python? That’s a win for the home team,” Ian Bartoszek told the Gulf Coast News. “We all tend to like animals that punch above their weight class. Here was a native animal pushing back against an invasive apex predator.”
After reading about the 13-foot python that was killed by a bobcat in Florida, learn about Titanoboa, the 50-foot prehistoric snake that could weigh up to 2,500 pounds. Or, discover the skin-crawling story of Brazil’s snake-infested Ilha da Queimada Grande, or “Snake Island.”
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