In the face of invasive Burmese pythons, even the American alligator of the Everglades is no match.

But one native species isn’t willing to roll over and let the pythons have the run of the famous Florida ecosystem, and has recently been proven capable of mounting a lethal defense of its home.

Meet the American bobcat, which was recently been seen in trail camera footage to have returned to the site of a decapitated python carcass identified by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida which had been tracking it as a way of locating fertile female pythons for removal.

The conservancy followed the radio signal of a collar around the 13-foot-long snake, which they had nicknamed Loki after a nefarious Norse mythological deity who was punished for mischief by being chained to the ground of a c

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