Man at his breakfast table photographs python eating cockatoo

A man sitting down to breakfast soon realised he had a scaly dining companion.

Living in a rainforest, Julian McPherson is accustomed to having all sorts of creatures and animals join him at mealtimes in his backyard. But last Thursday, a squawking sulphur-crested cockatoo suddenly became breakfast for another wild guest, an amethystine python.

Australia's largest snake, which can grow up to 8m, the python is named for the purple and violet amethyst colours that shoot off its scales at certain angles in the sunshine.

None of this was of much interest to the cockatoo, firmly clamped in the (non-venomous) jaws and quickly being suffocated by the python's steely coils.

Julian, a Cairns businessman who lives on Earl Hill at Trinity Beach in North Queensland, captured all the stages of python food preparation and ultimately its all-enveloping table manners.

credited to news.com.au