WE are paddling gently through the Florida Everglades backcountry swamps on a sun-drenched early June morning.

Days after a Burmese python burst trying to swallow an alligator in Florida, another python is believed to have swallowed a cherished pet – a Siamese cat named Frances.

ALLIGATORS have clashed with pythons before in Florida’s Everglades National Park.

Alligators have clashed with pythons before in Florida’s Everglades National Park. But when two of the reptiles clashed recently , the result was not pretty.