Snakes are well-known for swallowing their prey whole, but this unlucky little serpent’s fortune appears to have turned.
Photographer Julie-Anne O’Neill has claimed credit for the image, in a Google+ post in November 2016.
She wrote there that this image of an Australian green tree frog eating a brown snake was taken at night with a Canon EOS 550D.
However, as the image has been seen online prior to her post, her claim cannot be confirmed. O’Neill adds:
“Previous to the capture, I had been led to believe that they ate only insects. The Australian Brown Snake is highly venomous. Although the snake had bitten the frog, as you will see if you enlarge the photo, the frog survived. Not such a happy ending for the snake however…”
Indeed, the expression on the snake’s face is comparable that of the fish photographed inside a jellyfish, for whom the ending probably wasn’t happy either.
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Frog: wake me up
Snake: (wake me up inside)
Greetings to all at ‘Earthly Mission’ .. I am Julie-Anne O’Neill .. the photographer behind the photo of the ‘green tree frog eating the brown snake’ .. Firstly .. I had actually posted the original photo on G+ PRIOR to 2016 .. and then again IN 2016 (which I can prove though Google has deleted my profile and contents) .. Secondly .. I’ve supplied the original PROOF JPEG to National Geographic & The Daily Mail UK to PROVE that it is my ©️ photo (from whom I received an apology btw) .. though 100’s of others refused to acknowledge the theft of my photo .. so .. I am notifying you that my ‘claim’ to the photo CAN & HAS been CONFIRMED .. :) ..
Thank you for sharing! Wishing everyone a beautiful life.