WATCH: Snake hauls doomed possum into Brisbane tree
A hungry carpet python has been filmed dragging a lifeless adult possum up a tree in Queensland.
Video uploaded to YouTube by South Brisbane resident Peter McMaster shows the python dragging its prey into the tree’s canopy.
The possum swings like a pendulum in the wind, feet hanging with the snake’s jaws clamped around its head.
The python slowly pulls the large marsupial up the tree, nearly dropping it at one stage, before the video cuts.
Mr McMaster told News Corp the snake was one of four or five pythons he’s seen around his home in Tingalpa, which backs onto a bush reserve, over the past month.
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He yelled out to his kids on this occasion to see the python getting ready for its feast saying it was an “unbelievable thing to see”.
“A few weeks ago we found one that had semi-constricted a flying fox,” he said.
“I’d like to think it was the same one that got the possum but we can’t be sure.”
