Deadly eastern brown snake is captured eating a carpet python in Brisbane

The sight of a lethal brown snake consuming a carpet python practically its personal dimension could be sufficient to present most individuals the creeps, however it was a uncommon and interesting show for snake catchers Sally and Norman Hill.

The pair, who run N&S Snakecatching, had been known as to a house within the Ipswich suburb of Goodna, west of Brisbane, on Monday afternoon to see the chilling sight.

'We have by no means seen one thing like this earlier than, it's totally uncommon any snake catcher will get a chance to witness one thing like this,' Ms Hill stated.

The sight of a lethal brown snake consuming a carpet python practically its personal dimension could be sufficient to present most individuals the creeps

'We at all times heard the outdated saying, "should you've acquired a carpet python you will not have a brown" so clearly that is a fantasy.'

Ms Hill stated they stayed on the property for a number of hours to permit the snake to complete its meal.

'We simply put him into the bag, should you disturb them an excessive amount of they will regurgitate their meal and it is only a waste,' she stated.

Brown snakes normally eat mice, frogs and lizards, however have been identified to eat different snakes, even different brown snakes.

Snake catchers Sally and Norman Hill had been known as to a house within the Ipswich suburb of Goodna, west of Brisbane, on Monday afternoon to see the chilling sight

Mrs Hill stated they stayed on the property for a number of hours to permit the snake to complete its meal

Mrs Hill stated the incident might have been brought on by inhabitants strain resulting in competitors for meals, with the variety of sightings of browns growing in recent times.

'We began in 2015, so we've got just about doubled what we had been doing after we began,' she stated.

The incident follows photos being broadly shared on-line of a big python consuming a totally grown wallaby close to Cairns on Sunday afternoon.

And a girl was bitten by a wild inexperienced tree snake at Australia Zoo north of Brisbane on Monday and was taken to hospital as a precaution.

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