>>New Zealand.

It isn't New Zealand. There are no snakes in New Zealand. The part about New Zealand is the Rays and Demoiselles shown off the Poor Knight's Islands. The bat/python interaction is shot in Australia.

There are two snakes in the video. One is obviously a Carpet Python. The slender snake is not a python. It looks like a Brown Treesnake (assuming that footage is from Australia - if not it could be another species of Boiga). When it captures the bat, it doesn't appear to constrict it the way most bat-hunting boids or even colubrids do. It appears to just restrain it and start chewing/eating.

Tough to tell unless you knew where that footage was shot?
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

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