A brown snake begins to removes itself from the red belly black snake that had 'eaten' it

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A brown snake begins to removes itself from the red belly black snake that had 'eaten' it minutes before on the back lawn of a house in South Gundagai, NSW, late December 2008. Photographer, Tony Barton, said he initially thought someone had killed the snake and it was a practical joke. Then, not long after he saw the red belly black eat the brown, it opened its mouth and "I spotted this beady eye and the head of the brown snake in its mouth. It then fastened onto the black's lower jaw and pulled itself completely out."

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