Pythons

[Paleosuchus]

Some interspecies conflict, a large carpet python kills a fox that intended to make the snake its dinner
Another python kills a fox

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"IT’S a dog-eat-dog world out there, or in the case of this bizarre animal encounter, it’s snake-eat-fox.


The jaws of the fox had to be forced open to untangle the beasts. Picture: Robert Cregan
Or is it fox-eat-snake? It’d be hard to tell if not for witness Robert Cregan, who unravelled the mystery after his son spotted the warring pair on the NSW north coast.

“It was just by the side of the road. The fox had bitten the snake on the head, looking for a meal I guess,” Mr Cregan said. “Then the snake constricted the fox.”

But with the dying fox’s jaws still clamped tightly around the 2m carpet python’s neck on Monday, each strangling coil of its body made it more difficult to escape the clutches of its would-be assassin.

“We had to prise the jaws of the fox open but when the snake sensed we were doing that it constricted the fox’s head even more,” Mr Cregan said.

“We managed to prise the fox’s jaws open and then we were able to release the head of the snake. It had a bit of a look at me and my son and we just left it where it was.” "

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