A Newcastle animal controller captured the fattest red belly black snake he had ever seen, lurking under an air conditioning unit at a business park in Cameron Park.
Deoff Delooze described the snake as monstrous, weighing slightly less than 10kg and measuring up to two meters long, adding that it took him around ten minutes to coax the venomous serpent.
Mr Delooze, a senior reptile technician at Newcastle and Hunter Animal Control, explained that it is rare for the serpents to grow this long, stressing that he has never seen one of that weight.
He said the red belly would have feasted on frogs, mice, and no doubt, other snakes too.
'A hundred percent sure they are cannibalistic, they will eat whatever they can fit in their mouth, and mothers often hunt down their own babies after they hatch,” he told the Daily Mail Australia.