Pictured: Huge python dines out on an unlucky crocodile
Wayne Chevis has seen snakes make a meal of just about everything that moves, and plenty of things that didn't, growing up in the Kakadu National Park.
But the ranger's son had never seen a snake swallow a crocodile.
He has now.
Mr Chevis told the ABC he was crossing the Kimberley River en route from Lake Argyle to Darwin when he and his fellow traveller spotted a writhing reptilian mess.
Upon closer inspection, they discovered it was a battle to the death between a freshwater croc and a large python.
"I've seen snakes eat crocodile eggs, and of course snakes eat turtles, and geese and other birds, lizards of course and goannas, but I've never seen a snake eating a crocodile," he said.
The python won, and won well.
"There were no injuries on the snake at all, so I think the snake had the upper hand completely in that little battle that was happening," he said.
Mr Chevis said the snake appeared to be as long as three metres and had easily accounted for its quarry on Sunday.
