A hungry predator is devouring Florida’s invasive pythons on camera. Wildlife officials hoped this natural hunter could curb the snake explosion devastating local mammals, but the captured footage reveals something far more unsettling.
In southwest Florida, biologists tracking Burmese pythons have found that some hatchlings are being eaten by native predators, including a species researchers did not initially expect. Radio-tagged pythons have been located inside the digestive tracts of Florida cottonmouths, confirming that at least one native snake is capable of preying on the invasive species.The findings emerged from studies i…