Revolting moment greedy snake hanging from the roof of a house finds its colourful meal too much to digest
A carpet python found a rainbow lorikeet too much to swallow after wrapping itself around the bird while hanging from a roof.
The snake was spotted at a Sunshine Coast home earlier this month, where the hapless bird’s head was locked in the reptile’s embrace with its wings sticking out.
Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 was called to take the reptile away and filmed the event.
A Sunshine Coast snake catcher caught up with this carpet python (pictured), who had probably ‘given up’ eating a nice feathery catch of the day because of the cooler climate
Mr McKenzie wrote on his social media page: ‘We let the snake try and eat the bird but it ended up spitting it out as it was very cold and it seemed like the snake gave up.’
The bird dropped to the floor, as the snake was stuffed into a bag to be relocated elsewhere, away from the home.
The snake catcher speculated the cool weather could have been the reason why the snake gave up eating the large morsel.
The reptiles are known to become less active and even lethargic when temperatures drop in the winter months.
‘When I picked the snake up it was extremely cold so it would have been very hard for the snake to try and swallow the bird and digest it,’ the snake expert said.
These snakes attack in ambush style, wrapping around their prey in order to suffocate them.
The snake catcher’s social media came alive with comments on the deadly plight of the lorikeet, with one hoping the snake ‘gets indigestion’.
While another recommended pet birds to be kept in ‘snake proof cages’ and one more wished they had a snake like that in their house
‘If I had one living on my roof he would never go hungry, with all the pigeons living under my solar panels,’ the post said.
These snakes attack in ambush style, wrapping around their prey (pictured) in order to suffocate them
