While snakes eating wallabies seems to be the norm in far north Queensland, a snake eating another snake is a rare sighting.
But it's just what snake catchers Sally and Norman Hill happened to see when they were called to a job at Goodna on Monday afternoon.
"By the time we got there the snake was still eating the carpet python, we've never seen this before ourselves," Ms Hill said.
"We hung around for a couple of hours, when you see a snake eating an animal it's interesting."
The snake doing the eating was an eastern brown, a highly venomous species that normally eats small rodents, birds and frogs.
Ms Hill, who runs N&S Snake Catcher Ipswich, Brisbane & Logan with her husband, said when it came to catching the brown and its prey it was actually quite straightforward.
"We just opened the bag up and he went in there himself," she said.
It took more than three hours for the snake to eat its lengthy prey, but Ms Hill said it was easier on the snake to relocated it once it had finished its meal.
"It's really hard because sometime when we do travel they can regurgitate their meal, so we waited and waited and then relocated it," she said.
"It didn't spew it up which was good."
Another recent snake meal caught on camera involved a scrub python snacking on a wallaby near Cairns.
The large python and its larger dinner were spotted by Kuranda resident Bernie Worsfold in a horse paddock on Sunday afternoon.
The snake somehow managed to swallow the whole wallaby, seemingly unperturbed by a curious horse who was looking on.
Mr Worsfold told the ABC he tried to save the wallaby's joey, rescuing it from its mother's pouch, but sadly it did not survive.
While most scrub pythons will eat birds, rats, possums and other small mammals, large ones - they can grow to seven metres - are known to eat the occasional wallaby.
Just last month, another scrub python was seen eating a smaller wallaby in the middle of a golf course fairway in Cairns.
It took the python "quite a while" to finish eating the wallaby joey, before it slunk back into the bush.
In another New Year snake incident, a woman was bitten by a wild green tree snake at Australia Zoo on Monday.
Though it didn't attempt to eat her, and the snake is non-venomous, the woman was taken to hospital as a precaution.
