- A golfer captured amazing images of an entangled python and alligator
- The Burmese python was wrapped around the alligator who had part of the snake in its mouth
- The animals were fighting on the 10th hole at the Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek in Naples on Friday
A golfer captured a rare sight on Friday when he spotted a Burmese python and an alligator locked in a major battle.
Dr. Richard Nadler expected a fun afternoon golfing with friends, and instead walked into a scene that could have come straight from The Jungle Book.
On the 10th hole at the Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek in Naples, Florida, there was a serious hazard causing a major golfing delay.
A golfer captured a rare sight on Friday when he spotted a Burmese python and an alligator locked in a major battle in Naples, Florida
Nadler didn’t realize what the back-up was, so he asked other golfers to hurry up so they could tee off.
‘They drove back to explain to us that it was actually an alligator and python entwined. So that’s what everyone was taking pictures of that’s what the back up was,’ Nadler said to NBC 2.
‘So we drove towards the hole and we took a look at the animals and we took pictures and we continued with our golf game.’
The python was wrapped around the alligator, but the animal had the snake’s head in its mouth
The next morning the two animals were gone, and it is assumed the alligator ‘won’
‘They were absolutely still,’ he said. ‘There was no grappling going on, nothing. The python’s head was in the mouth of the alligator and the alligator was just sitting there absolutely still with his eyes wide open not moving.’
‘And he had all these people around him these golf carts and people walking around taking photographs.’
He posted the images to Facebook, which have since gone viral.
‘Apparently there was no intervention and the next morning they were all gone and the assumption was that the alligator won and that was the end of it,’ Nadler said.