Alligator Anyone?

Ready for something gross? This is a picture of a mighty python who literally busted a gut trying to eat an adult alligator. The python also managed to get its head cut off somehow (upper left). According to National Geographic, who posted a little article about this event (and made a show about it on the National Geographic Channel), the python either simply couldn't handle its enormous dinner, or got into a fight with another alligator - a friend who was coming to the rescue - hence the python's missing head.

I guess this isn't the first time a python has had trouble taking down its whole meal. Speedy KT, who turned me on to this whole python situation, discovered another National Geographic story about a python that ate a pregnant sheep and was so bloated from the meal that it couldn't move. It eventually puked the whole thing back up (bummer). National Geographic also cited an incident of a pet python eating an entire queen sized electric blanket.

Those pythons clearly haven't gotten the concept of "portion control."