I saw a piece of this show "Python versus Gator" on the National Geographic Channel. Apparently some scientists (I'm sure graciously paid for by our tax dollars) are trying very hard to prove that burmese pythons are monsters capable of destroying all life in the Everglades. I expect shows like this from Animal Planet but am a little surprised at NGW.

They began their experiment by taking a dead, half-rotting alligator and thrusting it in the python's face... repeatedly. The frightened python tried it's best to escape but it was followed around the tank, constantly being poked with an alligator. The team of scientists were dumbfounded that this 'ecosystem destroying monster' wouldn't eat a meal in front of (and repeatedly bounced off of) its face.

Finally, in an "ah hah!" moment, they decapitated a rat, peeled the face off, and literally sewed it over the gators face. The burmese did in fact strike at this rat/gator abomination and the experiment was deemed a success. The show concluded Pythons are a dangerous apex predator that will readily eat gators.

I was dumbfounded by this and just wanted to share the low level of propoganda that is being run. This is the sort of pseudo science (sewing a rat face over a gator's) that is behind the Federal Python Ban and is fueling the 'python epidemic'.