Snake vs dragon: in pictures
2 March 2022
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More than a mouthful of water dragon.
Image credit: Peter Street
More than a mouthful… Wildlife photographer Peter Street documents the hard-to-swallow antics of a golden crowned snake.
“Golden crowned snakes are nocturnal, probing around at night for sleeping lizards,” says Peter Street, who captured this sequence over the course of a few hours on the NSW Central Coast.
“Sorry water dragon, you snooze you lose.”
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