giant snake pulls cow out of water!!!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/cowsnake.asp

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ABC also noted that someone posting as the original photographer left a message in their guestbook:
I hope you enjoyed the photo that we took recently while hiking in a gorge in northern Western Australia. The phython was not able to lift the wallaby after trying for approximately one hour. We left him catching his breath on a rock ledge above the pool.

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Who knows what really happened though. . .

Awesome pic, not sure how you found a two and a half year old thread though :weirdface

looks like an amethystine python

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Originally Posted by oswhiteboy

looks like an amethystine python

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G'day guys, firstly hello from Australia, thanks for a great site, this pic has been doing the rounds in the herp comunity for some time now, the snake species and indeed the prey are a hotly debated topic, i think you will find that it is a species known as the Pilbara python, (Liasis olivaceus barroni) its a type of olive python that grows really large, obviously. The prey i cant be exact on but it is most certainly a type of kangaroo.

thanks guys