Seething Sunshine Coast snake splits side savouring super supper
It's no laughing matter, but a carpet python in Queensland took on and ate a meal so big it split its side.
A reptile wrangler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 was called to a home in Buderim to relocate a rather large and rather angry snake hanging out in a garden.
In the video posted to company's Facebook, snake catcher "Lockie" explains why this typically docile and calm snake is so large and angry – a large bulge somewhere along its metres-long body, as well as a small lacuna in its scales.
"He's missing a lot of skin, along, underneath that food item," the reptile catcher says.
"So whatever it was, it put up a really good fight. And it's actually opened him up."
As the catcher coaxes the ballooning serpent around on the deck, he points out the hole in its belly.
"It looks like it's been a possum because I could see a little bit of orange fur hanging out."
The wound, Lochie suggests, would be the likely reason why the typically calm snake was so feisty, snapping at everything that came near it.
"This behaviour is fairly common with snakes that have recently swallowed large food items," Lochie wrote on the post from Sunday.
The Sunshine Coast snake catcher said the wound was "probably partly due to the wound that he no doubt would have sustained whilst taking down his recent prey".
