THERE is nothing us Aussies love more than a good snake video – with our slithering neighbours always providing some great entertainments.
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Here are of our favourite wildlife stories from 2016.
1 – Video of snake eating snake goes viral
A video of what is believed to be a Mulga snake eating a brown snake on a property near St George has become a social media sensation.
St George’s Rod Avery shot the video after a long day lamb marking on Burgorah, 15km north east of St George.
2 – Prickly meal proves to be last
When Matt Marks caught a glimpse of something white running through nearby trees while he was checking traps on his home property Bullecourt, west of Charleville, at the start of winter, he never imagined the surprise in store for him.
He put his rifle to his shoulder to check out the vision through the scope, to discover he'd flushed out a cream-coloured wild dog with what he thought was a pup in its mouth.
He put his rifle to his shoulder to check out the vision through the scope, to discover he'd flushed out a cream-coloured wild dog with what he thought was a pup in its mouth.
After shooting it he drove up, expecting a two-for-one bonus of dispatching its young one, only to discover the bitch had a much bigger mouthful - a dead echidna that had been turned inside out.
"It took me a while to work out what it was," Matt said.
3 – Two meter red bellied black caught
REDLAND snake catcher Stewart Lalor has caught the biggest red-bellied black snake he has ever seen.
The two metre specimen came from Mt Cotton,a semi-rural area in south-east Queensland.
“Other snake catchers were also saying it was the biggest they had seen,’’ he said. “You don’t often see them this size. Usually they are more about 4 feet (1.2m).’’
4 – Blue-tongue lizard faces down black snake in Merimbula
What happens when a blue-tongued lizard comes face to face with a red-bellied black snake?
A Merimbula man had a front row seat to the showdown on Thursday while working on a home in Long Point.
5 – Black-headed pythons fight for love
It may look like a scene from Dirty Dancing, but this footage taken on Toomba Station, Charters Towers, captures two male black-headed pythons fighting for the right to breed with a nearby female.
The video was shot by property owner Josephine Heading who shared it back with her local natural resource management group, NQ Dry Tropics.
BONUS – Dingo chases wild pigs in the Gulf
Remarkable footage surfaced of a dingo relentlessly hunting a group of feral pigs, believed to be from the Gulf country just over the border in Northern Territory.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy published the video saying as far as they knew it was the first of its kind and it showcased the important ecological role of the dingo.
