Mar 3, 2014 4:20pm
A
python begins to swallow the crocodile at Lake Moondarra near Mount Isa
on March 2, 2014 in Queensland, Australia. The snake fought, wrestled
and then ate a crocodile whole following a dramatic five-hour long
battle. The incident was captured on camera by Tiffany Corlis at Lake
Moondarra in Queensland, Australia. (Marvin Muller/Barcroft Media
/Landov)
Photographers in Queensland, Australia, captured a snake battling a crocodile over the span of five hours, climaxing with the snake swallowing the crocodile whole.
“[The crocodile] was fighting at the start, it was trying to keep its head out of water and survive,” one photographer, Tiffany Corlis, told ABC Australia. “But as the morning progressed you could tell both of them were getting a little weaker as the struggle was going on. Finally the croc sort of gave in.”
Marvin Muller/Barcroft Media /Landov
“It was just unbelievable,” she said. “We were sort of thinking the snake had bitten off a little more than it could chew, pardon the pun, but it did actually eat the crocodile.”
The
outline of the crocodile seen inside the python at Lake Moondarra near
Mount Isa on March 2, 2014 in Queensland, Australia. A snake fought,
wrestled and then ate a crocodile whole following a dramatic five-hour
long battle. Marvin Muller/Barcroft Media /Landov