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19-09-2009, 06:53 PM
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| | | Australian snake ID help
Hi all
I was lucky enough to be in the Whitsundays recently on Hook Island. One morning at 5am I was watching fruit bats coming in to roost, and one missed its footing and fell with a thud!
Moments later a three-metre snake came out from the bushes, and spent the next two hours crushing the bat to death and swallowing it. I got a nice sequence of pictures (the one time I actually had my camera with me!) Here are three of the set.
The bat had a wingspan of about 18 inches by the way, and the snake was so intent on the job in hand it hardly noticed me parading around taking pictures!
Later somebody said it was a carpet python - is this correct? I don't know my non-British snakes. It was definitely a constrictor of some sort though lol   
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19-09-2009, 07:24 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
Look at pictures from various links via Google, it does like a Carpet Python. I'm more used to the native reptiles of here though!
Mark |
19-09-2009, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
Looks like a Carpet python to me. |
19-09-2009, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
Thanks arvensis - I'll do what you suggest.
I just thought, I hope I didn't break any rules about non-British species! I'm new on here  Interested to see your location BTW. |
19-09-2009, 07:37 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
I never realised one species of snake could have so many variations, amazing!
Thanks to both of you for confirming |
19-09-2009, 08:13 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
Hi Tallus, I think your shot should have been posted in "Wild About the World". A few members have been redirected there for foreign species ID.
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19-09-2009, 08:20 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
didn't know about that site, but thanks, I'll check. I like your siggy Kind of applies to me a bit these days |
19-09-2009, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Australian snake ID help
I'm glad that your Aussie snake was ID'd, hopefully you'll find some of our native reptiles now(If you haven't already)
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