about 25 m up one of the koala-favoured red gums was a coastal carpet python. I don't know if they have ever eaten koalas but there are reports of them eating a young wallaby and take possums and cats. I've always loved these snakes and have one that lives around the house - well this could be the same one, I don't have a scale pattern recognition strategy!
Sure had me shaking my head as I've never seen one so high up a tree, but now know that it's quite common. Always so much to learn!
Oh, I would run for it! Haha, I'm so scared of snakes. I watched a python catch and swallow/crush a possum before while my son was playing hockey. Scary to watch.
@rickster549@fr1da@hjbenson@888rachel I've never been at all scared of pythons and quite like having them around as they do keep rats in check. these ones do have beautiful markings, I'll sure be looking for them up there from now on!
@vignouse mostly they eat small mammals - there are cane fields below my property so the snakes keep the rats down. sadly they also eat the native frogs, but that's life isn't it!
@vignouse thanks for asking Richard - because there is so little habitat they have to come down to the ground to move from tree to tree a lot of the time. they are ungainly on the ground and at great threat from dogs, and of course if they have to cross roads it's a huge issue
they can jump quite well so if trees are thick they will move through the treetops which is how they used to move in the old forests
here is a little video from July so you can see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W77YamWhWE
hope it did not scare the koalas
they can jump quite well so if trees are thick they will move through the treetops which is how they used to move in the old forests
here is a little video from July so you can see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W77YamWhWE