Just when you think you’re the apex predator, you get eaten and then thrown back up by another apex predator.
These photos were taken by Amanda Jongedyk.
She is the daughter of Parry Creek Farm Tourist Resort and Caravan Park owner Ann Jongedyk who splits her time between Humpty Doo and the Kimberly, who said she thought the snake might have vomited up its lunch so it could slither away.
“We’re no snake experts, but we have a lot to do with them because we have a lot around.”
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READ NOWThere was a bit of debate on Facebook — just for a change — about whether they were water pythons or olive pythons and whether the ‘lunch snake” was dead before it was eaten and regurgitated.
“Eating a cousin?” wrote Gary Divola.
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Samantha Kadick: “Current state of the entire world.”
“Kinds like a reptile turducken. Something inside a snake, inside another snake,” Amanda Bannatyne.
Raelene Gavin: “That’s one way to loose weight instantly. Wow!”
“Can I ask a stupid question? Is the regurgitated one dead?”
Of course you can Ny Ree.
What this bloke says.
Steve Poole: “Yes it is dead.”
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“An olive python swallowed another olive python as big as it. Wow. What a timely camera shoot that was,” Cecily Chick wrote.
And there is always a wannabe David Attenborough in every Facebook argument.
Anthony Evans: “Pythons will regurgitate their meal if they feel threatened and need to fight or escape. The photographer may have been seen as a threat. Safe to say; the meal is dead.”