{"id":532036,"date":"2025-10-27T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532036\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:55:15","slug":"giant-python-slithers-across-barren-australian-landscape-in-rare-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532036\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant python slithers across barren Australian landscape in rare sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A wildlife ecologist in South Australia\u2019s Gawler Ranges National Park recently documented a rare encounter with a massive carpet python that slithered across the open landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tali Moyle\u2019s sighting was featured via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPn3bAXAazA\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> by National Parks and Wildlife SA, with a photo and video, and an assurance that the reptile was not harmed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We recommend always maintaining a respectful distance when observing animals in their natural habitat. This footage was captured by a local ecologist with specialist expertise in wildlife care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Carpet python in Gawler Ranges National Park.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d297c9cb50201614e92866f60d148817.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Carpet python in Gawler Ranges National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gawler Ranges National Park, famous for its spectacular rock formations, is on the northern portion of the Eyre Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Southwestern carpet pythons generally prefer coastal, woodland, or grassland habitats. Encounters in Gawler Ranges National Park are rare and Moyle\u2019s footage impressed social-media followers. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPn3bAXAazA\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to view Moyle&#8217;s footage.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/massive-snake-tree-peers-home-161909846.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:RELATED: Giant snake emerges from tree, dinosaur-like, near home in Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: Giant snake emerges from tree, dinosaur-like, near home in Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The top Instagram comment: \u201cIt\u2019s beautiful, but I fear my soul would leave my body if I saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carpet pythons are nonvenomous and can measure to about 10 feet. They prey mostly on small reptiles, birds, and mammals, including wallabies and other marsupials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/10\/27\/huge-python-grabs-spotlight-during-rare-encounter-in-australian-park\/86923429007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Huge python grabs spotlight during rare encounter in Australian park;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Huge python grabs spotlight during rare encounter in Australian park<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife ecologist in South Australia\u2019s Gawler Ranges National Park recently documented a rare encounter with a massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[172286,172283,172284,172288,172287,70,172285,16,15,1717,172289],"class_list":{"0":"post-532036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-carpet-python","9":"tag-gawler-ranges-national-park","10":"tag-national-parks-and-wildlife-sa","11":"tag-open-landscape","12":"tag-rare-encounter","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-tali-moyle","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wildlife","18":"tag-wildlife-ecologist"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115448599288283855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}