Two snakes got in a fight and crashed through someone’s ceiling
Two snakes engaged in a wrestling match crashed through the ceiling of a home in Brisbane, Australia, like a scene from some sort of bizarre action/horror film.
The snakes were a pair of male coastal carpet pythons, a nonvenomous species who kill their prey by constriction. Snake catchers who arrived on the scene felt like they were most likely fighting over the right to mate with a female snake who was probably nearby. The pair somehow made their way into the home—where their combined weight was too much for a vent in one of the, luckily unoccupied, bedrooms.
The homeowners were kind enough to let the snake catchers capture some video of the battling reptiles before they were removed from the premises.
“We have our first pair of combat males for the season,” says the woman ...
