Snake's wallaby meal
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Darren Cleland could not believe his eyes when he saw this monster python on the banks of the Barron River west of Cairns.
The former Cairns councillor was at his rural property at Bilwon last month when he heard a neighbour's dog barking and rushed down to the water's edge to find the snake devouring a full-size wallaby with a joey in its pouch.
He estimated the python was at least 5m long.
"We were more amazed than anything that a python could get its mouth around an animal of that size," he told
The Cairns Post last night.
"We've seen a few snakes but never anything this big."
Mr Cleland said the experience was a good lesson for his children to be wary of all snakes.
"We figured if it could eat the wallaby, it could easily eat our five-year-old."
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