A scrub python was caught biting off greater than it may chew after taking down an agile wallaby on a property in north Queensland. In a sequence of unbelievable photographs, the reptile will be seen making an attempt to demolish the marsupial, with its jaw stretched extensive over the animal’s physique.
“I got a message on my Facebook page, just saying there’s a big, big snake eating a wallaby,” Jeremy De Haan from Jeremy’s Reptile Relocations Townsville instructed Yahoo News Australia. “They were a fair way out of town, around Crystal Creek, the Paluma region, so I made the 50-minute drive, and by the time I got there it had only half consumed the wallaby.”
At that time, Jeremy determined to let the snake end its meal. “If I even touched that snake in any form, it would have just released the grip on the wallaby, resulting in essentially a waste of a meal and a waste of a life,” he defined. “So I did attempt to just sit back and watch, but unfortunately the snake’s eyes were too big for its stomach.”
While it was solely midway into the feed, the python nonetheless hadn’t received by way of “the bulk of the thickness of the wallaby yet”.
“So it essentially just gave up when it realised it was too big of a prey item,” Jeremy stated. “Because if it did manage to successfully get it down, there is a chance that that prey item was just too big to digest and it could have resulted in the death of the python.”
From the get go, the skilled snake catcher didn’t assume it was going to occur as a result of whereas 3.3 metres lengthy and eight to 10 kilos in weight, the snake wasn’t “a big scrub python by any means”.
“I’ve seen big carpet pythons eat possums and things like that, but they’re a bigger sake,” he stated. “To even subdue an agile wallaby of that size — that would have been just as heavy as itself — was quite impressive. Like that was really pushing the limits.”
“I’ve been doing this for a while and that’s definitely the largest prey item that I’ve seen attempted to be consumed. So even for me as a snake catcher, dealing with snakes every day, it was very fascinating to watch.”
After rejecting the free meal, the snake indifferent itself from the wallaby, and that’s when Jeremy stepped in to catch the python earlier than it took off into the shrub.
“The property that it actually came from, they had chickens, ducks and small dogs easily the same size as the wallaby,” he stated. “So the snake needed to be relocated because if he was just left there then, unfortunately, it could have been a pet that was taken next.”
Jeremy added that he launched the python a number of kilometres away on a cane discipline, after receiving permission, and the snake slid away, looking for its subsequent feed.
Are scrub pythons harmful to people?
They will be the largest rising snake we now have in Australia – and one of many longest on the planet – with information revealing some develop as much as six metres in size, but when left alone, there’s no threat to people, Jeremy stated.
You don’t, nonetheless, wish to get bitten by one.
“Their bites can be quite painful,” the snake catcher anticipated. “They have over 100 teeth in their mouth so it can be quite a serious wound, but they are non venomous so it wouldn’t be a life threatening bite.”
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