Snake eats crocodile after epic fight in Qld (Video – Photo)

An enormous water python has devoured a metre-long fresh water crocodile following an epic duel that shocked onlookers at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, on Sunday.
And that’s not uncommon, according to University of Queensland snake expert Bryan Fry.

Tiffany Corlis, a local author, who witnessed the event and took pictures of it told the press, “It was amazing,” adding, “We saw the snake fighting with the crocodile – it would roll the crocodile around to get a better grip, and coil its body around the crocodile’s legs to hold it tight.”

She went on to say, “The fight began in the water – the crocodile was trying to hold its head out of the water at one time, and the snake was constricting it.”
“After the crocodile had died, the snake uncoiled itself, came around to the front, and started to eat the crocodile, face-first.”

It took the snake approximately 15 minutes to swallow the crocodile whole.
Another witness called Alyce Rosenthal told local media that the two creature fought for around 5 hours before the snake came out victorious. She said, “It’s not something that you see every day.”

Pythons kill their prey by squeezing them tightly leading to the victim dying of suffocation or heart failure. The python then dislocates its jaw to swallow its prey whole; this enables the snake to swallow creatures many times their own size.

Agencies/Canadajournal