Huge Python Eats A Bat In Woman's Suburban Backyard

A woman in a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, had her morning interrupted by the sound of a gigantic python consuming a bat in her yard. The fight went on for two hours, but Tova Ferris exclusively told Australia’s 7 News she wasn’t overly concerned by nature taking its course on her lawn.

While the incident fits well with the wildlife generalizations of Australia, pythons actually aren’t common in the area. Ferris said she has lived near Brisbane for 15 years without seeing anything like this, although bats aren’t unusual.

“I just hear this squawking - this really weird sound that I hadn’t heard before,” she said. “I sort of looked toward the right and obviously it was the bat making noises and the python going for it.”

“Once I sat back and had a look, I thought it’s not every day you get to see this. It was quite amazing to watch it do its thing,” she told 7 News. “It sort of hung around for about two hours eating the bat, then went up to the top of the tree and sat there for about another two hours.”

While she described the event as a shock, Ferris didn’t feel any need to call animal control or report the snake.

“I was just happy to let it do its thing,” she said. “I was pretty sure it would go on its merry way and hopefully I’d never see him again.”

And that’s exactly what happened. When Ferris came back hours later, the snake had moved on from its treetop perch.

“I definitely wasn’t panicking too much,” she said.