Python eats chook
PICTURES of a python killing and eating a chicken in a Cairns yard have been submitted exclusively to cairns.com.au.
Cairns PR consultant Sarah Fraser said "never in her wildest dreams" did she expect to see pythons at her Brinsmead address.
The snake entered both her family home and her chook pen.
Having recently moved from Kuranda, northwest of Cairns, where pythons are prevalant, Ms Fraser said she was shocked to see such a huge python in her house in a residential suburb.
"The photos are pretty gruesome with the snake killing and eating our chook," Ms Fraser said yesterday.
"After its first unsuccessful attempt to catch one of the chooks, the snake had a mouth full of feathers."
Ms Fraser's email submission to The Cairns Post newspaper has followed a number of similar reader contributions to the paper and the paper's website, cairns.com.au.
The most recent was a picture of a spider taking a bird in Atherton, on the tableand north of Cairns.
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