A “truly amazing” picture of two “Aussie mates” basking within the solar side-by-side has shocked many after being shared on-line by a preferred snake catcher.
Stuart McKenzie with the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers posted the picture of the “beautiful” giant python with a full stomach cosying as much as a goanna to the corporate’s Facebook on Sunday, describing it as “still one of the coolest photo’s that has ever been sent to us by our amazing followers”.
The hanging pairing additionally surprised others, attracting tons of of feedback from Aussies in awe of the “odd couple”. “That’s awesome,” one person stated, whereas one other joked “They must have had a wild Saturday night!”.
“Both just raided the chicken coop like ‘Yeah, that’s what’s up’,” another person wrote.
While many individuals stated the pair gave the impression to be mates, others claimed the “python is definitely sizing up the goanna as a next meal”. “Is that normal for a snake and goanna to hang out together?” one other person contemplated.
Pythons and goannas can peacefully coexist
Seeing a “coastal carpet python and adult lace monitor basking side-by-side” just isn’t widespread, however peaceable interactions between snakes and lizards do happen, Operations Manager on the Australian Reptile Park, Billy Collett, instructed Yahoo in September after a lady named Saskia posted a collection of images of a python and tree goanna — presumably the identical pair — mendacity collectively on her verandah in Nimbin, in northern NSW.
“I’ve seen two diamond pythons on the same roof as a lace monitor… and red bellies and long-neck turtles. I think people would be surprised at how often this would actually happen in the wild,” Billy stated, including their possibilities of consuming one another are slim given their dimension.
“That’s a decent sized snake for the lace monitor to have a crack at.”
Saskia instructed Yahoo final yr it was the second time she had seen the snake and goanna collect at her home after rising from brumation. “They hung out for about two weeks together and even slept very close to each other,” she stated of their first assembly in 2022.
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