Friday, May 16, 2014

Wallaby-eating python interrupted dinner party

A snake eating an unfortunate marsupial brought cheer to a dinner party in Australia's Northern Territory. ­

Pravina de Beer was hosting a dinner party at her Katherine home when some arriving guests told her of the live ­nature programme on the road outside her home. “They said that there was a big python trying to eat a kangaroo outside,” she said.



The 25 guests, colleagues of de Beer's who had assembled at her home for a farewell get-together, rushed outside to witness the captured marsuipial's final breaths. “I had some guests from New Zealand on holiday and they couldn’t believe it,” Ms De Beer said

“It started eating at 5pm and we went back at 8.45pm and they were both gone.” Ms De Beer said that ­Katherine was a hotbed of wildlife activity. “There’s a lot of kangaroos around here, and snakes too,’ she said. “Last year, I had a baby goat and a snake ate it under my home.”

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