Although it has been three weeks now since
we have been in the Wet Tropics we had a siting today that was quite the
welcome. Another of the students came
running to the main center and announced a python on the path that had eaten
something. Obviously, all work was
dropped and we followed him back along the path. Our expectations were surpassed by far though
when we saw a 3½ meter Python on the path that had eaten something the size of
a small watermelon. It had consumed the
animal earlier that night probably and our professors thought it was either a
brush turkey or possum by the size.
After we all watched it for ten or fifteen minutes it got sick of us
observing him and he managed to move surprisingly quickly back into the brush
towards a small sunny clearing.
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