Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator

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Here's a theory. Another gator came and tried to rescue him. That could explain why the python's head is missing as well as the opened gut.

Or maybe some hunters came across the drowsy, fully-fed (and perfectly healthy) python, killed it, took its head as a trophy, and sliced it open to see what was in its belly? It just seems a little odd to me that the head was removed and is nowhere to be found...

A possibility or just a flight of fancy on my part?