More Factional Fighting

There appears to be another falling out between two factions of the Animal Uprising™. Earlier we reported on a shark eating a deer in Hawaii. Now, from Hungary comes another report - this time it's the pythons eating the parrots. (Please pay attention to the dateline of the story - that typo is in the original).

BUDAPEST, Hungry - A python that apparently was smuggled into the Budapest Zoo has killed three rare Kea parrots, officials said Friday.

It was unclear whether a visitor released the tiger python into the Keas' cage or whether someone released the 6-foot, 6-inch snake elsewhere in the zoo and it found the cage by itself, zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said.

Hanga said the zoo owned several pythons, but they had implanted microchips and all had been accounted for.

The Kea is a sharp-beaked parrot native to the high country of New Zealand's South Island. It is considered a vulnerable species — an estimated 1,000-5,000 survive in the wild and another 140 in zoos.

The Keas — a female and two males — were very playful birds and came to Budapest from zoos in Austria and Germany. They were each valued at $7,800.

We have no idea if Budapest is hungry, but the python certainly was. Not any more, apparently. Obviously, the python slithered in there with a score to settle with the parrots. Could it be that the unholy alliance of the Animal Uprising™ is starting to fall apart? Or was it just a buda-peckish python being hungry in Hungary?