Shocking pictures have emerged of a giant carpet python devouring a large black bat.
In the images, captured by a homeowner in her back yard, the bat’s wings can be seen sticking from the three-metre-long reptile’s contorted jaws.
According to the Sunshine Coast Daily, Mille Stoevring and her partner Shane Tuer, from Sunshine Beach, near Noosa, Queensland, were shocked to discover the reptile hanging from a tree outside, mid meal.
Video: Shocking moment giant python swallows a BAT in Australia
Over the course of 30 minutes, the couple were mesmerized by the slithering carnivore’s shocking eating habits.
‘We were there filming about 20 centimetres away, the snake wasn’t fazed at all,’ Ms Stoevring told the Sunshine Coast Daily.
‘It was fascinating to watch it making its way over the bat’s body, to the other wing tip.’
Ms Stoevring said the python struggled to stretch its jaw around the ‘massive’ bat.
‘It was just amazing to see the snake’s mouth square as it tried to somehow fit the edged parts of the bat in,’ she said.
Ms Stoevring said when the python finished it laid vertically on a branch, with the bat’s bones stretching its scaly skin around the mid-section, before it slithered back into the bush.
She said it was initially her border collie, Lilly, that brough her attention to the unusual encounter.
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