Wildlife experts were
shocked to discover the 'fattest snake you will ever see' in tropical
Queensland.
According to DailyMail, the scrub python, found near Kuranda in far north Queensland, is more than five metres long and weighs in excess of 50kgs. Two workers at the Rainforestation Nature Park discovered the snake in the middle of the road, after first thinking it was a tree branch. It has now been nicknamed 'Scrubby'.
General manager of Rainforestation Nature Park Chris Grantham told the ABC:
According to DailyMail, the scrub python, found near Kuranda in far north Queensland, is more than five metres long and weighs in excess of 50kgs. Two workers at the Rainforestation Nature Park discovered the snake in the middle of the road, after first thinking it was a tree branch. It has now been nicknamed 'Scrubby'.
General manager of Rainforestation Nature Park Chris Grantham told the ABC:
'Because it was quite cool
it was quite docile. So they grabbed it and put it in the back of the ute so it
didn't get run over. We have heaps of scrub pythons up here - they're very common in this part. But nothing that size, that was just
incredible. You find them two to three metres long ... sometime a bit bigger.
But never one that fat.
They're generally very
thin pythons, like a rainforest snake, where as this was really thick, very
well fed.'
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Mr Grantham estimated the
python to be at least 50 kilograms and perhaps 20 years old.
"To survive that long
is pretty amazing ... they generally end up in chicken coops, grabbing the
family pet and end up on the end of a shovel."
Photos
of the catch were uploaded onto social media, and quickly went viral as amazing
users shared the astonishing images.The scrub python is Australia's largest snake, with most growing to between three and seven metres.
They are known to mostly eat small reptiles, mammals and bird, but in some cases they prey on animals the same size or larger than the snake itself
