A snake discovered itself hanging the other way up from a tree for 12 hours on Saturday after its prey proved too “heavy” as a morning snack.
A involved resident noticed the possum dangling from the jaws of a metre-long carpet python of their yard, with it possible the 2 animals had “wrestled” within the timber earlier than the snake got here out victorious. However, it seems the snake then slipped — with solely the tip of its tail gripping onto the department eight metres above the bottom.
“The snake was hanging immediately down with the possum in its mouth and we simply thought it was making an attempt to tug it up into the tree however it should have fallen,” Stuart Mckenzie from Sunshine Coast snake catchers instructed Yahoo News Australia.
He talked about how “unusual” it was for the snake to remain in such a position, believing it had been there for as much as 12 hours earlier than he interfered.
Gravity labored in opposition to snake in additional methods than one
Other than the snake falling from the tree within the first place, it is possible the load of the possum and the angle of the snake’s enamel meant gravity “caught” the animals collectively.
“The snake in all probability did not wish to drop as a result of it did not understand how excessive up it was… however it’s possible the backward dealing with enamel presumably wedged them [together] and it could not let go,” Mckenzie mentioned.
Python was ‘relieved’ when snake catcher interfered
Mckenzie believes the snake appeared fairly happy when he separated the 2 animals, going nowhere close to the possum after the snake catcher put it on the base of the tree. “I feel it was really relieved, it went again up the tree. I went on the market the following morning and the snake was gone, so I feel it was fairly comfortable to be free” he mentioned.
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