The Burmese python is upending the food pyramid in the Florida Everglades. Totally disrupting the typical order of operations. It’s through a phenomenon ecologists call a trophic cascade. In the Everglades, the typical food pyramid works like this: alligators are at the top and they eat what’s under them, anything from medium-sized mammals like deer and bobcat to smaller mammals like rodents, mice and rabbits. But when the Burmese pythons entered the ecosystem, they started eating animals from b