Related: Close-up of Burmese python swallowing reticulated python. Burmese pythons can grow to 19 feet (5.8 m), while reticulated pythons can reach up to 25 feet (7.6 m).

Moore was one of the scientists investigating the snake's diet. A look at what was on the python's menu, was a 5-foot dead but still fairly intact alligator.

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They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

Researchers were able to get their tracker back after a 25-day wait for the native cottonmouth snake to digest the invasive Burmese python.

Once on the ground, the python let go of the rat -- but the eastern brown snake wasn't after just the rat. Mace said it fought with the python, which was wrapped around its head, for 30 minutes.

As one commenter joked, "Congratulations, your python is pregnant with an alligator." Florida encourages people to kill Burmese pythons because they eat so many other species and reproduce rapidly.