Golfers got a surprise when they came across a large python eating a wallaby in the middle of a golf course in tropical north Queensland.
The four-metre-long scrub python was spotted early on Saturday morning in the middle of a fairway, according to Paradise Palms general manager Declan McCollam.
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Snake eats wallaby on golf course
Cairns golfers are stopped mid round after spotting a snake devouring a wallaby on the fairway.
"We didn't see the python capture the wallaby so we don't really know [how it was caught], we just saw the python lying in the fairway with half a wallaby in its mouth," he said.
The snake took "quite a while" to finish swallowing the wallaby joey.
"It just basically finished digesting it and once it had it inside, it got its jaw back in place and slithered off into the bush," Mr McCollam said.
He said the golfers who spotted the python weren't put off their game at all.
"Everyone just wanted to look at it ... they see the snakes all the time," he said.
"All the golfers were just going past it and giving it a wide berth."
Golfer Robert Willemse told the BBC the golfers were "pretty surprised" to see the reptile in action.
"It's quite an unusual thing to see," he said.
The golf course, just north of Cairns, is home to plenty of wildlife including pythons.
"We don't normally see them with half-digested wallabies in them," he said.
"We've got wild pigs, we've got the wallabies, obviously the pythons, we've got a tonne of native birds, lizards."
Scrub or amethystine pythons are the largest snakes in Australia, and adults typically grow to between two and four metres in length.
The non-venomous snakes usually eat small mammals including possums and bats, but larger ones will also eat wallabies.