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Bullants eat weevil

A couple of bullants attack a weevil. "They are basically going to carry it off into their nest to use as food. We see this in everyday life, but do we really stop and watch? I do, and I want to...

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Crocodile brings home the bacon

This estuarine crocodile catches a wild boar in the waters of the Mulgrave River near Cairns. "I've been in wildlife photography for a long time and exhibited a lot of photos and these photos show that...

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Snake eats snake

A brown snake pulls itself from inside a red belly black snake, eventually completely freeing itself. "It is not uncommon for a snake to eat another snake. And yes they are immune to some of the...

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Python kills mouse

A carpet python coils itself around a mouse to suffocate it. "Pythons don't have any venom, they just have quite sharp little needle-like teeth and they grab the animal with their mouth, quickly coil...

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Jumping spider eats beetle

A jumping spider holds a lady beetle in its fangs. "I have seen these jumping spiders in the foliage of my garden and watched them jump around the leaves and see something and grab it. You don't need a...

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Snake vs crocodile

An olive python eats a freshwater crocodile in western Queensland. "It sounds like a Hollywood movie doesn't it, you know 'snake vs. crocodile', but if a python is big enough it can take on a lot,"...

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Flying fox killed by a paralysis tick

A flying fox killed by a paralysis tick on far north Queensland's Atherton Tablelands. "We have all got cameras now in our phones, so everyone can take a fairly high resolution photo and people are...

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Brown snake eats rat

A brown snake captures a rat in the shed of an Atherton Tableland farm. "It happens every day, we just don't observe it. You can see and witness some of these fantastic things if you are looking hard...

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Fly eats fly

A very small fly eats what looks like an even smaller fly. "It is such a rare event for us to witness, other than perhaps on our TV screens, I think it does mean that we have got some sort of...

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Frog eats beetle

A green tree frog on the Atherton Tablelands spits out a cane beetle. "This is the advantage of some of these animals that have defence mechanisms where if they are swallowed by an animal and they...

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Spider eats grasshopper

Biologist, author and photographer Dr Martin Cohen says we have developed a fascination in the brutal behaviour of wild animals because of our disconnection from nature. "When we became civilised and...

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