A Grim Look at the Australian Food Chain
March 17th, 2005 by Jeff Simmermon
My friend Jamie is an environmental scientist in Perth, who, like all of his countrymen, has a fantastic sense of the macabre combined with a love for wild animals. Check out these photos he sent me of a python eating a large wallaby somewhere out in the Australian bush.
This is the Aussie equivalent of a trip to Golden Corral…
Click here to see another massive python stuck on an electric fence, and here to see a python retrieving a drowned kangaroo somewhere in the Pilbara. Additionally, I wrote and published a lengthy account of a kangaroo shooting trip I went on in Australia a few years ago. You can read that here.
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March 17th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
seriously–oh my god. that’s amazing and disturbing.
March 17th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
That was awesome to see. I have owned 3 snakes - although none like the snake in the photo. Mine were 1 Ball Python, 1 Burmeze Python and one RedTail Boa. Those photos brought back memories of feeding them. I’m just in awe of how they can do that. Amazing. I love nature in all it’s glory.
March 20th, 2005 at 12:16 am
That scared the hell out of me. But it is pretty amazing.
March 22nd, 2005 at 9:26 pm
holy. crap.
March 23rd, 2005 at 11:37 am
When I was really little, maybe 4 or 5, a friend of our family showed me a picture he’d taken of a python that had eaten a goat, but had then been killed when the goat’s horns pierced its back. I’ve been fascinated by snakes ever since.
March 29th, 2005 at 9:47 pm
I DO A POOP AND HAVE SEX WITH A SQUIRELL
April 28th, 2005 at 9:00 am
Have owned several snakes of the past 20 years and all I can say is WOW…it looks like it’s jaw was in two totally seperate pieces…UNREAL.
April 28th, 2005 at 11:19 am
dude that is the shit i wonder how big his dump will be. it would suck to own him though cause if thtat MF got out you be fed in the A
May 17th, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Celerbrate goodtimes- COMMON!
May 17th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
that snake is so sexy
May 18th, 2005 at 8:52 pm
I want photos of it trying to slither off with an undigested macropod in its alimentary canal.
I wonder if snakes get furballs? If not, perhaps a little snake DNA should be spliced into our domestic cats. Oh wait…
October 6th, 2005 at 6:45 am
Maybe even a more powerful image…
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/34097/the_power_of_annaconda/
January 10th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
thats gross and mean i dont like you okay bye
January 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
eeww
January 11th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
SWEET BABY JESUS! Hi ho, hi ho, its down the hatch he goes.
January 12th, 2006 at 7:20 am
Jeff,
Did you shoot these photos yourself? What is the approximate size/weight of the kangaroo this python is eating?
January 12th, 2006 at 7:25 am
I didn’t shoot these. I would guess the ‘roo in question is between four and five feet tall, but it is really hard to tell scale through the pics.
October 15th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
icky
October 15th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
icky. thats nasttyyy
November 6th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
ick thats gross.. but thats nature i guess
December 20th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Amazing to think it goes on in our outback every day …. cool hey
January 13th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
SNAKES ARE FUCKING EVIL. THEY BELONG IN HELL. POOR LITTLE INNOCENT KANGAROO OR WHATEVER IT WAS. SNAKES ARE EEEWW ICKY AND NASTY. PLEASE KILL THEM ALL. I’LL GO BUY SOME NICE SNAKE BOOTS AND BELTS AND KILL THAT CRAP.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 am
I would like to have seen more of what happenedAFTER he pulled the roo up!!! OR if he even finished pulling the roo up the rest of the way. Would have liked more pics. =( Like a movie screenshot and no movie to go with it. =(
April 24th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Oh. My. God. I ddn’t know there were snakes that viscious in Australia.
July 4th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
That is not a python but rather a venomous snake. I just can’t tell which species.
July 4th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
The head is similar to a cobra’s meaning it’s in the colubrae family, REALLY venomous!