Snake & Roo

[Castor]

[mekon]

Get us another coldie Sid!

[Xuaxace]

That is one big bugger of a snake!

[Orson]

Holy shit!

[Professor Redfern]

I call shennanigans!

Its a wallaby! trying to pass it off as a roo tsc tsc

That has to be some of the best camo ive ever seen.

[~JC~]

That's horrible





Best place for Snakes if ya ask me!!!

[Rockstar]

+1

[T-roy]

No way.

Snakes are cool.

no way!!
Best place for kangaroos


or maybe here

[~JC~]

Or on skewers at Little Creatures in Freo...nom nom nom (the kangaroo that is NOT the snake....meh but snake tastes alright too)

[Lozzle]

Python vs Wallaroo =)


(Haha, some people (coughAmericanscough) thought the roo was a COW!!!)


According to this email forward, the attached photograph shows a large snake pulling the carcass of a cow out of a canyon waterhole somewhere in Australia.

Unlike many images that circulate via email, this photograph is genuine. However, the dead animal is not a cow, although it certainly does appear cow-like at first glance. It is, in fact, a wallaroo (euro), a stocky Macropod that is generally larger than a wallaby, but smaller than a kangaroo. Wallaroos are found in many areas of the Australian continent.

The snake is an Olive python, one of the largest species of python found in northern Australia. The photograph, taken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, was featured in an article published on the ABC Far North Qld website in July 2005. The article notes:

The picture shows a large Olive python capturing dinner - a wallaroo or euro.

Note the size of the python, which if you look closely you can see disappearing out the right hand side of the frame. How much more of it is there, curled around the escarpment it so beautifully blends with?

The person who apparently took the photograph, identified only as "Jody" in the ABC article, added the following entry to the site's guestbook:

I hope you enjoyed the photo that we took recently while hiking in a gorge in northern Western Australia. The phython was not able to lift the wallaby after trying for approximately one hour. We left him catching his breath on a rock ledge above the pool.

Although the python in the photograph is certainly very large, the misperception that its potential meal is a cow rather than a wallaroo may cause observers to believe that it is somewhat larger than it really is.

[FJ Steve]

Although the python in the photograph is certainly very large, the misperception that its potential meal is a cow rather than a wallaroo may cause observers to believe that it is somewhat larger than it really is.

which ever way you look at it....it's a fuggen big snake. Period

[taddy]

Haha.. another 2 more years and I'm legally allowed to keep olive pythons as pets
Aproximatly 6 types of olive pythons ranging across the top half of australia. the largest of them all being the Pilbra Olive. Growing up to 6 and a half mtrs long!!
Can't wait to own one

[Shai'tan]

Olive pythons are really cool! But you can see why they put them in the same pet category as death adders, dugites and mulga snakes

[Professor Redfern]

In light of recent posts I would like to withdraw my call of shenanigans and humbly apologise for my statement. Technically if it is a wallaroo as stated then I suppose it could be posted as roo.


An those yanks are dumb even if they didnt know it was a roo wouldnt you think maybe dear before you think cow? Imagine a snake with a head the size of even a baby cow. It would have to be 20m+ if that was a calf.

[taddy]

If you look on youtube you can find some vids of large boas eating stuff.. I think theres one thats eaten a pigmy hippo and regurgitate it!

Yes.. I want to get a hatchling.. or even a juvenile.. no more than 1 mtr at first.. and let it grow with me.. but even then after years of rearing.. I wouldn't handle a full sized olive by myself.. Only with another person present would I hold one.. Just incase it struck.. even carpets can break the skin when they strike.. so something 2-3 times the size would surely do some damage!! ahh its making me more excited about them now..