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BAYSIDE BULLETIN (Australia) 03 November 05 Hard to swallow but this story is true! (Samantha Peters)
[Photo at URL below]
Eating breakfast?
Then don't look too closely at this photo.
Because this extraordinary photo of a python swallowing a wallaby whole may spoil your appetite a bit.
The photo was snapped last weekend by Mt Cotton resident Nicole Brown who lives in the bushland estate of Ridgewood Downs.
Nicole said she'd seen a two and a half metre python "eyeing off" some wallabies in her backyard on Saturday.
"I rang the snake catcher, who said there was probably no way she would go for a wallaby and he had never seen that before. Yes, they had taken small joeys, but not the wallabies," she said.
"The next day, I was looking out of my nine-month-old son's window and I saw the wallabies acting mob-like and frightened.
I thought, 'The python's back'. I went outside and there was a six-kilo wallaby already halfway down the snake.
"So, I rang the snake catcher again. He couldn't believe it."
Nicole said she was "surprised" that the python had been able to kill something so large.
"I didn't think it was feasible.
"We've been here for two years, and only seen little brown snakes."
The python will be released by the snake catcher into the bush after the wallaby has been digested and the snake is less vulnerable to attack by predators, which should take approximately another week.

http://redland.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general news&story_id=436098&y=2005&m=11

This article had appeared here some time ago.I absolutely remember reading this.
I'd say I read it nearly a year ago.

If thats the case, why is it dated Nov 3, 2005? I think you are confusing some pics that were floating around of a large scrub eating a large pey itme like this. That appears to be a carpet python. I have never seen a referance to a carpet eating anything that large before.

Shawn

It's a 7' carpet eating a small wallaby. I don't see anything unusual about the pic. Besides, they don't say it finished swallowing the wallaby. Look in the Barker's Australian book at the pic of the carpet that swallowed a cat. Huge lump. My bigger carpets easily swallow rabbits.
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
1.1 Woma (Juvie female)
2.1 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.0 Angolan Juvie
1.1 Savu
1.1 Juvie Bloods
1.1 Juvie Balls
1.1 IJ Carpets
1.1 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.1 Papuan Olives
0.1 Jungle Carpet
2.2 Scrubs (on breeding loan)
1.0 Jungle/Diamond cross
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC

http://andiamnotlyingforreal.blogspot.com/2005/03/grim-look-at-australian-food-chain.html

These are dated March 17,2005
Maybe it is misaken identity

The urrl you provided is a scrub python eating a kangaroo/wallaby. The link within that story is an olive python eating one. The pic at the start of this thread is a carpet python. All Aussie snakes, but the one that can eat the biggest meal is probably the Scrub, followed by the Olive. Jaw lenghts.......
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
1.1 Woma (Juvie female)
2.1 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.0 Angolan Juvie
1.1 Savu
1.1 Juvie Bloods
1.1 Juvie Balls
1.1 IJ Carpets
1.1 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.1 Papuan Olives
0.1 Jungle Carpet
2.2 Scrubs (on breeding loan)
1.0 Jungle/Diamond cross
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC