Unprecedented video shows invasive Burmese python defending nest of eggs from hungry bobcat in Florida Everglades

Unprecedented video shows a bobcat raiding the unguarded nest of an invasive Burmese python for eggs and a standoff that followed when the 14-foot snake returned to her nest in the Florida Everglades.

The footage in the Big Cypress National Preserve marks the "first documentation of any animal in Florida preying on python eggs" and the first evidence of any animal in the Everglades fighting back against a Burmese python, according to a report by the U.S. Geological Survey.  

The trail cam video, captured by USGS cameras from June through August of 2021, shows a curious bobcat stalking the python's nest of eggs. The native animal can be seen on June 1 approaching the unguarded nest and eating the eggs, then returning the next day, digging at the nest and biting more eggs.