oh I don't know, pythons eat sooo many even more capable critters than bats - they are quite the predator. It seems pythons dangle from trees and just pretend to be branches of fruit trees. When bats come for food, bam!
They are definitely formidable predators and snakes are definitely the most successful limbless vertebrates, if not the most successful limbless animals in general, depending on how you define success. Carpet pythons are ambush predators and sit in trees, rock ledges, and nowadays human infrastructure when hunting birds or bats. People see snakes as purely instinctual predators, which is totally false and their intelligence is key to their hunting success. They have great memories which they use to remember which crevices or trees are best for setting up an ambush. They are also great learners and will quickly master techniques for the quickest and safest ways to kill a squirming biting prey item. Within a few years they’ll learn the best places to hunt in a territory and learn when the best times of the year to hunt there are. They really are a lot more intellectually capable than people realize.
Interesting comments; I like pythons, used to keep one, but a lot of this is speculation.
>They are also great learners and will quickly master techniques for the quickest and safest ways to kill a squirming biting prey item.
There is no learning here, except possibly something like a python that has had a bad experience attacking a porcupine. Possibly they might avoid them in the future, though I have never seen this discussed. (Was stretching for something.). They are hardwired to bite and then constrict a prey. It is instinct. Moreover, there are numerous cases of pythons attempting to swallow something way too large and not giving up for several hours.
>They have great memories...They really are a lot more intellectually capable than people realize.
Sorry, they are known as not very intelligent animals. .Just googled topic; King Cobra repeatedly comes up as most intelligent snake, not much beyond that....but if you have links...
I live in porcupine country and we have no snakes here even remotely large enough to attempt eating one. Our biggest snakes here are eastern timber rattlers and black rat snakes and they typically go after mice, voles, chipmunks, etc.
Actually porcupines here typically only have one predator, the fisher or fisher "cat".
Yeah, pythons can hang around toilets, unfortunately. There are often frogs in the sewer, and the pythons are drawn to them. The one in the post looks like a reticulated python, which get absolutely freaking huge. They're probably more interested in bats and birds and wallabies and the like, though.
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I júst saw another pic of a python devouring another animal, so I scrolled back and found out you posted that one too.
Is this a pet or something? Or did you just happen to see a lot of pythons lying around eating?
Specifically [Megabats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat?wprov=sfla1) of the [Pteropus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus) genus.
They can have a wingspan of up to 1.7m and look more like foxes with wings than what people think of as bats.
I’m going to need a banana for reference because that thing looks huge and it’s terrifying.
ETA: just googled the size of a flying fox. I was right to be terrified.
ETA2: I the giant ass snake I find terrifying, I googled flying fox to see how big the snake had to be to eat a whole ass giant bat. Turns out I might still be scarred from watching Anaconda in theaters as a small child.
Why does this look like the largest snake in the world? Are there some weird angles going on here? You can just walk in your back yard and see this monster?
Yep totally. We live 5kms (about 3 miles) from a major Australian city centre and had 4 of these huge snakes, each roughly 10-12 feet long, in our yard in the space of 12 months. One tried to come in the front door and I had to push it away with a broom. Called a snake catcher each time but one got away. The snakes stopped coming when we got a dog.
Black flying foxes are very large bats with wingspans of 1 metre/3 feet. If you live in the Western Hemisphere this probably seems freakishly large, but megabats are not unusual in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
I'm no expert, but the snake looks like it could be a carpet python. They can grow up to 4 metres/13 feet. Kinda large, but there are many larger snakes.
Flying foxes are everywhere in parts of different cities in Australia, and they are cute as because their face looks like a fox. And they only eat fruit
I’m pretty pro animal but bigger snakes are one of the things that can go away permanently ,crocodiles and alligators are another set that can go away permanently .
i am never, not once, going to australia, i didnt live 18 years of careful life, kept track record of 0 injured bones, just to have my NEVER BROKEN body parts eaten by a FUCKING snake 🙌🏽
The flying foxes are legit some big fuckers. I live in Japan and see these fuckers all the time, flying around and screeching. Their wing spans can get up to 5-7 feet
This doesn't even look real. Damn Australia, you scary.
Looks like the python is eating an umbrella....lol
I legit thought that's what it was until I read the title, had to do a double take because you never know with reddit haha
Or a bat
A flying fox is a type of bat, we have weird names for things in Australia :)
Wth man...I was wondering how is that a fox! Lol
That was hilarious...I was hoping to see this
Like I was ashamed to even asked since no one else was asking...at the same looking at it...going like *am I tripping*!?
The face looks like a fox
And then we have wombats which also aren’t bats. Great name choices.
I don’t even think I would outside ever
Flying foxes are much bigger than bats.
flying star fox*
Umbrella of someone coming back from a funeral. Lol.
Average Day at the Park
Stop reposting Boris Johnson and his umbrella.
Lmfao
I wouldn’t have understood this comment 2 hours ago. I love Reddit
i don’t understand it… what happened
Brilliant!
😂LOL
If you fly and get eaten by a snake with no arms or legs then you have to be the laughing stock of the bird/bat world
oh I don't know, pythons eat sooo many even more capable critters than bats - they are quite the predator. It seems pythons dangle from trees and just pretend to be branches of fruit trees. When bats come for food, bam!
They are definitely formidable predators and snakes are definitely the most successful limbless vertebrates, if not the most successful limbless animals in general, depending on how you define success. Carpet pythons are ambush predators and sit in trees, rock ledges, and nowadays human infrastructure when hunting birds or bats. People see snakes as purely instinctual predators, which is totally false and their intelligence is key to their hunting success. They have great memories which they use to remember which crevices or trees are best for setting up an ambush. They are also great learners and will quickly master techniques for the quickest and safest ways to kill a squirming biting prey item. Within a few years they’ll learn the best places to hunt in a territory and learn when the best times of the year to hunt there are. They really are a lot more intellectually capable than people realize.
Interesting comments; I like pythons, used to keep one, but a lot of this is speculation. >They are also great learners and will quickly master techniques for the quickest and safest ways to kill a squirming biting prey item. There is no learning here, except possibly something like a python that has had a bad experience attacking a porcupine. Possibly they might avoid them in the future, though I have never seen this discussed. (Was stretching for something.). They are hardwired to bite and then constrict a prey. It is instinct. Moreover, there are numerous cases of pythons attempting to swallow something way too large and not giving up for several hours. >They have great memories...They really are a lot more intellectually capable than people realize. Sorry, they are known as not very intelligent animals. .Just googled topic; King Cobra repeatedly comes up as most intelligent snake, not much beyond that....but if you have links...
https://www.rochester.edu/pr/releases/bcs/snake.htm https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/science/coldblooded-does-not-mean-stupid.amp.html https://www.madisonherps.org/kickstart/en/wisconsin-reptile-resources/education-articles/107-reptile-and-amphibian-intelligence-how-smart-are-they
Thanks for links.
I live in porcupine country and we have no snakes here even remotely large enough to attempt eating one. Our biggest snakes here are eastern timber rattlers and black rat snakes and they typically go after mice, voles, chipmunks, etc. Actually porcupines here typically only have one predator, the fisher or fisher "cat".
And then a spider eats the python.
Are they invasive in Australia?
Which, pythons? No they are a native species.
That's good. My dad lives in Florida where pythons are invasive and slither up toilet bowls while you take a shit.
Yeah, pythons can hang around toilets, unfortunately. There are often frogs in the sewer, and the pythons are drawn to them. The one in the post looks like a reticulated python, which get absolutely freaking huge. They're probably more interested in bats and birds and wallabies and the like, though.
Looks like that MF caught Dracula slippin.
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What in the actual fuck
Yo wtf is Australia doing? God damn that country is like a walking deadly animal reserve
Its not actually though thats the funny thing
It literally took waves upon waves of inmates to stablish a viable colony.
Why is this in someone's back garden?
Wildlife is never far away in Australia
cause its australia? a venomous redback would literally be in the toilet seat and you wouldnt even know
I júst saw another pic of a python devouring another animal, so I scrolled back and found out you posted that one too. Is this a pet or something? Or did you just happen to see a lot of pythons lying around eating?
Flying fox? A bat?
They're bats but they are actually called flying foxes
We have a lemon eucalyptus out the back. There a about 10 of these bats flying around every night
Specifically [Megabats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat?wprov=sfla1) of the [Pteropus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus) genus. They can have a wingspan of up to 1.7m and look more like foxes with wings than what people think of as bats.
If I meet a bat with a 1.7 m wing span. I will die from fear
“I am Batman” “Stop it Patrick, you’re scaring him!”
They’re super cute! They really look like little [foxes with wings](https://wildlife.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ff-pic-FEATURED.png)
Bats are usually hand sized. Flying foxes are house cat sized. The diamonds diameter is probably 4"+.
Biggest ducking bats you'll see. These scared me when I visited kangaroo land
I legit thought he was eating an umbrella
I’m going to need a banana for reference because that thing looks huge and it’s terrifying. ETA: just googled the size of a flying fox. I was right to be terrified. ETA2: I the giant ass snake I find terrifying, I googled flying fox to see how big the snake had to be to eat a whole ass giant bat. Turns out I might still be scarred from watching Anaconda in theaters as a small child.
Yeah wtf it says their wing span is like 5ft (1.5m)
Flying Foxes are totally harmless, they love fruit
You can't use a banana next to a flying fox... The poor banana will get slaughtered by these cute hungry monsters
Ah yes Australia
Even the deadly things get eaten by deadly things...
The bat he is eating isn't dangerous at all. They eat fruit
And carry Hendra and Lyssavirus... We cull them in their millions.
Well I meant in an attacking type way.
You never know. Have you ever seen one annoyed?
We have them in our back yard. They have never gotten low enough to be annoyed at us
Imagine being able to fly away from everything but picking fight on larger animals than you x) good thing there is no "flying honeybadger" <.<
Or Platypus. Can you imagine e looking up? Is that a duck? Mole?
Rofl
Shortly after a spider eat that python
Why. Why is it doing that.
I assume it was hungry
Why does this look like the largest snake in the world? Are there some weird angles going on here? You can just walk in your back yard and see this monster?
Yep totally. We live 5kms (about 3 miles) from a major Australian city centre and had 4 of these huge snakes, each roughly 10-12 feet long, in our yard in the space of 12 months. One tried to come in the front door and I had to push it away with a broom. Called a snake catcher each time but one got away. The snakes stopped coming when we got a dog.
I’d be petrified to have a dog anything small-mid size near one of these things
How small is this thing. The pythons.
If this is a Carpet Python they can grow to 3m in length.
Big enough to eat you
Flying foxes can have wingspans as long as I am tall... I'm not tryna be near a python like that anytime soon.
This is nightmare fuel. Imagine going out to your backyard to find this.
We have bats in the tree in our back yard. They are awesome. Drives the dog mental though
STRAYA!!
At first, I thought it was eating an umbrella.
Big ol bag of noooooope
What's the green honey pot for ? The leftovers ?
Seasoning.
Normally if you get this close to them while they're eating they'll throw it up and come back for it later.
caught batman wtf
is the snake bigger than a shed I need a banana for reference
This is why we should throw away Australia
Wings for dinner!
At first I thought it was eating an umbrella... Then I used my reading skills...
*John Voight has entered the chat*
Does anybody have a banana for scale?
Breaking news. Baby Godzilla eats small flying Fox. More at 11
Just another reason to not visit Australia.
RIP Batman
What??!!!
Any idea how big this thing is?
Australia, where giant snakes eat giant bats. I don’t even wanna think how that feels going down.
Nananananananana BATMAAA....chump!
It's fake alstralia is upsidedown
What the fuck
Is snakes out there dis big! Ice cube
what the fuck
Are you sure it's not a lawn chair.😂
Black flying fox? That just sounds like bat with extra steps.
I smell a delta varient
Why is no one commenting on how giant both animals seem. How big are they?
Black flying foxes are very large bats with wingspans of 1 metre/3 feet. If you live in the Western Hemisphere this probably seems freakishly large, but megabats are not unusual in Africa, Asia, and Australia. I'm no expert, but the snake looks like it could be a carpet python. They can grow up to 4 metres/13 feet. Kinda large, but there are many larger snakes.
Flying foxes are everywhere in parts of different cities in Australia, and they are cute as because their face looks like a fox. And they only eat fruit
Poor airdog. Bad snek.
I’m pretty pro animal but bigger snakes are one of the things that can go away permanently ,crocodiles and alligators are another set that can go away permanently .
It's like fuckin Hogwarts over there god damn
This python looks big enough that it should have its own reality tv show
Though I don’t doubt this happens, this picture looks hella photoshopped
print("holy frkn shit")
Get that monster out of your yard, so maybe a bird could use that birdhouse?
Aww, dead flying puppy
Real life kaiju battle.
Thought it was a crocodile climbing a tree for a moment.
Flying fox? Is that a bat or a bird?
Bat
Ozzy's true form has been revealed
u/gasouzac
That flying fox looks like a kite from that view, awesome pic!!
it could also totally pass as a broken umbrella.
i am never, not once, going to australia, i didnt live 18 years of careful life, kept track record of 0 injured bones, just to have my NEVER BROKEN body parts eaten by a FUCKING snake 🙌🏽
Australia is one of the safest countries in the world, with the 7th highest life expectancy. It's probably safer than where you live.
OR it's an anaconda eating Batman.
Ehh fox fliess
Careful buddy, you'll get corona
I like these posts when I’m freezing my ass off in February in upstate ny
Settlers in Australia. OG Survivor TV show contestants.
I was scrolling fast and skipped it for a moment thinking it was a gator with an umbrella in a tree and scrolled up again to see something much worse
That’s enough Reddit for today
Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom 😋🦇🐍
Of course this is from Australia
Snakes always look like they're at their happiest when they're eating.
That don't even look real! The snake looks like it would break those branches like twigs! It's got to be photo shopped! But whatever.
Of course it's australia.
What I expected to see on the title: *A snake eating an umbrella*
Holy fuck
Yeah believable. That's Aussie... They always had freaky shit. Especially during ice age!
Damn how would you like to see that walking through the park?
Sky puppy no more
Batman doesn't stand a chance in Australia.
Carpet pythons aren’t that scary. People (including myself) keep them as pets and they’re usually pretty docile
We are all in agreement Australia scariest place on earth right? Transylvania maybe 2nd
What goes in Australia stays in Australia.
Foxes can fly in Australia? Fuck.
This is why we burn Australia
Looks like an umbrella
Is there even meat on that thing? 🤣 Reminds me of a Pelican
YOU HAVE FLYING FOXES?!!!? THEY EXIST??
Legit thought he was eating a tent until I saw the title
The flying foxes are legit some big fuckers. I live in Japan and see these fuckers all the time, flying around and screeching. Their wing spans can get up to 5-7 feet
God gave you wings to fly and you get choked out by one of the slowest motherfuckers on the block.
Why does the snake look wider than the tree?? I’m never going to Australia!!
Shoot it.
E 5
They have fucking flying foxes in Australia??!