Snake VS Crocodile in Australia March 2014
The snake curls itself around the crocodile at Lake Moondarra on 2 March 2014
The snake coiled itself around the crocodile, residents said
The incident at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, was captured on camera by local residents on Sunday.
The 10-ft snake, thought to be a python, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two struggled in the water.
The snake later brought the dead crocodile onto land and ate it.
The snake then dragged the crocodile onto land
It then began to eat the crocodile, surprising residents
After the feast, the outline of the crocodile could be seen inside the snake
Tiffany Corlis, a local author, saw the fight and took these pictures.
“It was amazing,” she told the BBC. “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.”
“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,” she added.
Ms Corlis said it appeared to take the snake around 15 minutes to eat the crocodile.
The snake was “definitely very full,” when it finished, she said. “I don’t know where it went after that – we all left, thinking we didn’t want to stick around!”
Another witness, Alyce Rosenthal, told local media that the two creatures fought for about five hours. By the end, they appeared exhausted, she said.
“It’s not something that you see every day,” she said.
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