If you ever wondered what carpet pythons like to eat, sometimes it’s a breakfast wrap.
Early morning walkers were stopped in their tracks at Sippy Downs when a confronting David Attenborough-esque documentary unfolded in the suburbs.
A carpet python had captured a bat in a tree next to the path along Fitzwilliam Drive near the lake and descended to “constrict it” in preparation for eating.
The famed bat radar had not helped the hapless victim in this case with the stunning python far too smart and rapid for its prey.
Walkers gathered at a safe distance to watch the gripping encounter and Sunshinecoastnews.com.au photographer Warren Lynam soon heard about it on the Sippy Downs grapevine and headed on down to document it.
Carpet pythons can grow up to 4m in length, although most don’t exceed 2.5m.
They are secretive and well camouflaged with olive to brown skin with cream blotches which allows them to hide among leaf litter in tree hollows, logs and rocky crevices.
As they are non-venomous, when they catch their prey, they suffocate it by constricting it and then swallowing it whole. Carpet pythons mostly feed after dark, and eat smaller animals such as rats, possums, birds and, obviously, the occasional bat.
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