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Snake eats another snake because it's summer in Australia

It must be summer in Australia because snakes are out there eating things, from wildlife to other snakes.

Snake catcher Sally Hill, who was called to the incident in the state of Queensland, said she had never seen anything like it before.

She added that the snake, spotted at a house near Brisbane, north-east Australia, took more than three hours to finish off its prey.

“We’ve never seen something like this before, it’s very rare any snake catcher gets an opportunity to witness something like this,” she said.

The brown snake ate the carpet python because this is Australia. Source: N&S Snake Catchers/Facebook
The brown snake ate the carpet python because this is Australia. Source: N&S Snake Catchers/Facebook

“We always heard the old saying ‘if you’ve got a carpet python you won’t have a brown’, so obviously that’s a myth.”

“We just put him into the bag, if you disturb them too much they’ll regurgitate their meal and it’s just a waste,” she said.

Snakes quite often make mad meals in Australia. Source: Bernie Worsfold
Snakes quite often make mad meals in Australia. Source: Bernie Worsfold

Brown snakes are the deadliest in Australia, causing more deaths per year than any other.

Quick, aggressive and bad-tempered, brown snakes also possess venom that is ranked as the second most toxic of any land snake in the world.

Its venom causes progressive paralysis and prevents the blood from clotting.

The species average around 1.5 metre in total length, although the largest ever measured was over 2 metres long.

If the snake eating another snake doesn't seem too odd, that's because snakes making meals out of massive things happens all the time in Australia.

The snake was hungry. Source: Bernie Worsfold
The snake was hungry. Source: Bernie Worsfold

On Sunday Queensland man Bernie Worsfold witnessed a python making a meal out of a wallaby and its joey in his paddock.

So did his horse.

Making a meal out of a wallaby? I say neigh. Source: Bernie Worsfold
Making a meal out of a wallaby? I say neigh. Source: Bernie Worsfold