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Cane toads ride on python's back


Cane toads ride on python's back

Some called it the Outback Uber - ten cane toads have been caught riding a python, reports BBC.

Paul Mock of Kununurra in the far north of Western Australia filmed the bizarre sight after a heavy thunderstorm on Sunday night.

The animals were trying to escape an overflowing dam on the Mock's property when the toads came up with the novel form of transport.

Mr Mock sent the images to his brother Andrew, who then posted them online.

68mm just fell in the last hour at Kununurra.  Flushed all the cane toads out of my brothers dam.  Some of them took the easy way out - hitching a ride on the back of a 3.5m python.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Mock explains he had ventured out after a bad thunderstorm that dropped close to 7.0 cm (2.7") of rain on Kununurra in the space of an hour.

"I went out and the lake had overflowed," he says, and realised the toads, who nested around its edge, were fleeing the rising waters.

"Thousands of toads were all trying to find somewhere to go," he says. "And then I saw Monty our local python with a bunch of hitchhikers on his back."

The snake, which stretches to a length of 3.5m (11'4"), is a regular on Mr Mock's property.

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