Amethystine 1

Daintree Rainforest Wildlife
photographed at Thylogale
by David & Diane Armbrust

Amethystine Python
Morelia amethistina

Amethystine Python

This photo is the first of a series I took in the summer of 1997 of an Amethystine Python swallowing a male red-legged pademelon.

One wet day while out walking I came across a group of pademelons standing in a group craning their heads and thumping the ground in a very distressed state. On investigating the disturbance I found quite a large python guarding the body of a young male pademelon which it had obviously just killed. I did not recognize the pademelon as being one of my friends so the clinical side of me took over and I headed home for the camera. By the time I returned ten minutes later with camera, tripod and heaps of film he had already commenced the long and laborious task of swallowing something much bigger than himself. In this first photo the python has dislocated his lower jaw and has already got the head and neck of the pademelon down and is just beginning the seemingly impossible task of stretching himself over the shoulders and front legs of the poor unfortunate pademelon. Follow the next photo link below to see a selection from the series.

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