A carpet python with steel teeth put on a spectacular display for a Queensland family as it gently devoured a possum. Something about the commotion the birds were making in the tree caused Peter McMaster to put his mower down and glance up.
“There was quite a noise, and I thought to myself, ‘I guess that’s a snake,’” he explained. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he looked up: “There it was, a possum dangling from the tree – on the end of a snake.”
Mr McMaster’s initial action was to summon his children to come and view the magnificent scene occurring in their garden in Tingalpa, South Brisbane. “It was just incredible to behold, especially for the youngsters,” he told news.com.au.
Mr McMaster claimed the predator was one of four or five carpet pythons he’d seen in the last month or so surrounding his family’s farm. “We found one a few weeks ago that had semi-constricted a flying fox,” he explained. “I’d like to believe it’s the same one who got the possum, but we can’t be certain.”
Mr McMaster claimed his family had recently returned from a vacation when they saw the incredible spectacle on Sunday, thinking that the snake had become more daring during their absence. “We don’t have a name for it yet, but after today, I think it deserves one.” I’ll leave it to the youngsters to think up one.” It’s not the first time Australia has taken the globe by surprise with images of strange wildlife interactions.
A video of a huge huntsman pulling a mouse up a fridge in central Queensland went viral last year, and earlier this month, residents in Margaret River, Western Australia, were alarmed to see a bodybuilder kangaroo flexing its muscular biceps in a nearby stream.
