A snake won an epic battle against a crocodile which shocked onlookers at a Queensland lake
A snake has defeated a crocodile in an epic five-hour battle at a lake in
Australia
The clash between
a large water python and a three-foot fresh water crocodile occurred at Lake Moondarra
near Mount Isa ,
a remote town in the north-west of the state of Queensland
In remarkable
images captured by Tiffany Corlis, a local who was watching on, the python can
be seen strangling and eating the crocodile, whose outline can then be seen
inside the snake
Ms Corlis said the
crocodile tried to fight but was no match for the python.
"(The
crocodile) was fighting at the start, it was trying to keep its head out of
water and survive,” she told ABC News. “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."
Ms Corlis
said the onlookers were frightened but stunned by the dramatic battle. Locals
said the fight lasted about five hours
"It was just
unbelievable, 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," she said
"You could
see the crocodile in the snake's belly which I think was probably the more
remarkable thing. You could actually see its legs and see its scales and
everything, it was just amazing."
A snake expert,
Associate Professor Bryan Fry, from the University of Queensland
Crocs are more
dangerous to catch but easier to sneak up on,’’ he told Fairfax Media.
‘‘The problem is
they are risking being injured or killed, so they have to be judicious.’’
Asked if she would
swim in the lake in the future, Ms Corlis said: "I think I'll just send
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