Wildlife Blog
House Special-Python Eats Possum
Carpet Python Consumes Possum in Client’s House Coastal Carpet Pythons are known to eat very large prey, with this snake capturing and consuming a Common Brushtail Possum inside a client’s house in Corinda. We are called to removed Pythons in the process of eating...
Woma Python Pet
Woma Python Office Pet This gorgeous Woma Python was caught during a snake call out in 2019, but as this species is not found locally we knew it was an escaped pet. When we find escaped pets they are handed over to the Department of Environment and Science, who seek...
Squirming Snake
Squirming Snake Caught in Glue The Eastern Brown Snake is a commonly encountered venomous species, found throughout the Brisbane region. Unfortunately, they sometimes find themselves in precarious situations because of our modern world. This snake became stuck in the...
Albino Carpet Python
Albino Carpet Python Becomes Our Work Pet Carpet Pythons come in a variety of colours and patterns according to their locality and genes. Occasionally, albinism is passed along resulting in an entirely white and yellow snake, with bright pink eyes. Albino individuals...
Keelback Snake Eats Cane Toad
Keelback Makes Meal of Toxic Cane Toad This Keelback Snake was found by a Helensvale client consuming a toxic Cane Toad. Keelbacks are well known for eating Toads, but they are not totally immune to their poison. It is thought their resistance is due to their being...
Gutter Python
Carpet Python Coiled in Rain Gutter Carpet Pythons are usually on the look out for food, shelter, warmth or a mate. This large specimen was found coiled in a rain gutter attached to a Indooroopilly client’s roof. In a bit of diffused sun, it would have been happy to...
Mirror Image
Golden Crowned Snake Sees Itself In Mirror Golden Crowned Snake was found in a client’s bathroom in Jamboree Heights recently. Our catcher Jaedon scooped up the snake and it seemed interested in its own reflection in the mirror! This mildly venomous species is well...
Caught Water Dragon
Eastern Water Dragon Caught Moving Through Fence This large Eastern Water Dragon became caught when its hind legs could not fit through a metal fence. These lizards have powerful hind legs for swimming and climbing, and it misjudged its size! Our snake catcher was...
Powerful Lace Monitor
Powerful monitor photographed near a road Here the monitor’s powerful body is clear. They are very efficient climbers and can tear carrion apart with ease. This individual was photographed near a road in Springfield Lakes by our catcher Jaedon. These lizards have...
Lizard Intruders
A lizard call out A client in Brassall was shocked to find three reptile intruders in their home! Two juvenile Eastern Water Dragons and one Burton’s Legless Lizard managed to make their way inside, presumably to escape the heat. Unable to coax them out themselves,...
Lace Monitor Intruder
Lace Monitor Removed from Chicken Coop This large monitor was removed from a client’s chicken coop in Chapel Hill. The Lace Monitor is an opportunistic feeder and will both hunt small animals and scavenge carcasses and eggs. The chicken coop loaded with eggs was just...
Blue Phase Common Tree Snake
The less common ‘Blue Phase’ Common Tree Snake This species is extremely variable in colour with individuals often being green, yellow, blue or even almost black. Previously referred to by the common name the ‘Green Tree Snake’, this specimen makes it clear that was a...