Black-headed pythons, like other python species, are non-venomous, and kill their prey by coiling around it to suffocate it, and then swallowing it whole. Snake cannibalism is not unheard of.

The python was spotted by Wooleen Station owners Frances and David Pollock during a tour of their land on Wajarri Yamatji Country, around 300km north-east of Geraldton in WA's Murchison region.

Cannibalistic black-headed python devours its own kind alive. Conservationist captures one python eating another He stumbled across the rare sight at a QLD sanctuary ...

Native to Indonesia and weighing approximately 55 pounds, the light-colored yellow and black python was often presented as the ‘grand finale’ during her time as a show snake, Villalta said.