I Just Recieved This Email!! Wild Black Headed Python

[Wildcall]

I got this from a friend in the mines ... I dont know if you have seen this before. Enjoy! The email Reads:

"These pics were taken by one of the NRW crew at Cloudbreak this week. It took a total of 5 hours for the snake to finish off the goanna. As you can see, they put some signage up so it couldn't be run over."

 

[JordanG]

thats amazing!!!!
Hopefully the BHP dosent explode lol

 

[shea_and_ruby]

wow thanks for sharing! 5 hours!

 

[r3ptilian]

Was posted a while ago, nice lookin BHP though.

 

[Snowman]

Wow only three years behind
Snake wolfs down large goanna

 

[euphorion]

nice to refresh the memory and introduce those who are new to it though

 

[Wildcall]

lol thought it was familiar

 

[reuel]

Wow! That's crazy!

 

[Specks]

this has been going around for years :|

 

[killimike]

It has been going round for years, but as someone said above, hard to know that if you have never seen it before

The best spin on this photo I ever saw was only a few weeks ago, when a friend who knew I was interested in reptiles forwarded me these pics. They had received them from a Christian evangelist's monthly update email. The interesting part is that this evangelist made out like it was someone from his organisation that saw this and took pics!

 

[SYNeR]

May have been around for years, but it's the first time I've seen it. Great photos, thanks for sharing.
It's amazing seeing a snake eat something that large.

 

[LOFTYBOB]

May have been around for years, but it's the first time I've seen it. Great photos, thanks for sharing.
It's amazing seeing a snake eat something that large.

+1, thanks for posting.

 

[Foxthor]

Awesome, cheers.

 

[Smithers]

A first time view here too, thanks for posting Alex nature is truely awesome

 

[abnrmal91]

Yes it has been around for a couple of years but I am still always impressed everytime I see it.

 

[MSD Reptiles]

Awesome stuff! Dont think i have seen that one before either. And especially not since taken such a keen interest in reptiles... so thanks for sharing

 

[Renenet]

I haven't seen that one either. Thanks for posting. I love the way the BHP is so absorbed with its meal that it isn't bothered by the man crouching nearby.

That goanna looks like it was a large predator in its own right - I wonder if it put up much of a fight, how much it weighed compared to the snake and how long it took to digest!

 

[MathewB]

5 hours? Pfft I could do it in 3.....

 

[capeyorkblog]

I happen to know it was at Cloudbreak, I was living in Tom Price at the time which is similar country and the person who took the photos was related to someone I worked with so we were one of the first to receive the email in 2009.
Still amazing. Here is another amazing photo of a huge python pulling a kangaroo out of the water at Karijini National Park

 

[Jen]

My bf works at cloudbreak and says he sees reptiles all the time. He was actually written up in the mine sites magazine for rescuing some sort of lizard (can't remember what) that had gotten into the bomb emulsion.