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 hiding in a tree outside, mid-meal.
A giant python swallows a BAT in Australia.
The bat’s wings can be seen protruding from the three-meter-long reptile’s contorted jaws as it attempts to swallow the flying mammal.
Over the course of 30 minutes, the couple were mesmerized by the slithering carnivore’s eating habits.
Ms. Stoevring said the python started 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.”
Ms. Stoevring said when the python finished, it lay vertically on a branch, with the bat’s bones stretching its scaly skin around the mid-section.
