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Jungle Carpet Python. Photo: at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures by David Clode.

Some photos of snakes, lizards and crocodiles by David Clode. For more of my free downloadable photos, visit Unsplash.com, where many of the photos on this page are available free at a much higher resolution. Be warned that some of these photos and videos may be upsetting to some people.

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A King Brown or Mulga Snake eating a dead rat. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Video: David Clode.

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A Deathadder eating a dead rat. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Video: David Clode.

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A Deathadder finishes eating a rat. Snake video by David Clode.

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Portrait of a wild Eastern water dragon at Kuranda in Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Wild Eastern Water dDagons fighting over territory. Photo: David Clode.

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Yawning Asian Cobra Naja kaouthia. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Leaf-tailed Gecko in the wild, Daintree rain forest. Photo: David Clode.

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The world’s most venomous type of snake, the Inland Taipan, eating a dead rat. Oxyuranus microlepidotus. Photo: David Clode, taken at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures near Cairns in Australia.

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A Tiger Snake finishes it’s meal of a dead rat. Photo: David Clode. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, Australia.

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A Death Adder eating a dead rat. Photo: David Clode. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, near Cairns in Australia.

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Rhinoceros Iguana. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures in Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Rhinoceros iguana. Photo: David Clode.

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Darwin Carpet Python at Koala Gardens in Kuranda, Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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A Blood Python hiding under leaves. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Perentie, Varanus giganteus. The Serpentarium, St Helens, Tasmania. Photo: David Clode.

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Bell’s colour form of the Lace Monitor, Varanus varius. Photo: David Clode. The Serpentarium, St Helens, Tasmania.

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Reticulated Python at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures in Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Close up of a Reticulated Python, the longest type of snake in the world. Photo: David Clode, at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures in Australia.

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Coils of a massive Reticulated Python at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures in Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Reticulated Python at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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The three photos below show pythons eating dead rats. Brandon, one of the keepers at Koala Gardens in Kuranda in Australia, was kind enough to let me get up close and personal to get these photos.

Green Tree Python eating a dead rat. Morelia viridis. Photo: David Clode.

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Green Tree Python eating a dead rat. Photo: David Clode.

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Black-headed Python eating a dead rat. Photo: David Clode.

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Green Tree Python Morelia viridis. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures near Cairns, Australia. photo: David Clode.

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Inland Taipan, the most venomous snake in the world. Oxyuranus microlepidotus. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Rhinoceros iguanas. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Baby Estuarine Crocodile Crocodylus porosus. Photo: David Clode.

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Komodo Dragon Varanus komodoensis. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures, Australia, Photo: David Clode.

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Foot of a Komodo Dragon (front left foot). Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Green Tree snake Dendrelaphis punctulatus. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Eastern or Coastal Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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A Taipan eating a rat. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Taipan photo by David Clode.

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King Brown or Mulga Snake. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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A Gila monster at Hartleys Crocodile Adventures near Cairns Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Macro photo of the skin of a Gila Monster. Hartleys Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Red-bellied Black Snake, in the wild at Lake Barrine, Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Northern Brown Snake Pseudonaja nuchalis at Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Reticulated Python Malayopython reticulatus at Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Green Tree Python. Photo: David Clode. Koala Gardens, Kuranda, Australia.

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Boa Constrictor. Photo: David Clode.

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Feeding time at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Two wild crocodiles on the bank of the Mowbray river near Port Douglas in Australia.

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Veiled Chameleon. Hartleys Crocodile adventures. Photo: David Clode.

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Bearded Dragon. Photo: David Clode.

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Boa Constrictor. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Inland Australian colour form of the death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus. Photo: David Clode, Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Adventures.

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Coastal taipan, oxyuranus scutellatus. Photo: David Clode, Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Adventures.

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“Check your boots!” Coastal Taipan. Photo: David Clode.

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Inland Taipan. Photo: David Clode.

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A wild Brown Tree Snake Boiga irregularis, near Yungaburra in Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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A wild Brown Tree Snake. Photo: David Clode.

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Darwin colour form of the Carpet Python. Koala Gardens, Kuranda, Australia. Photo: David Clode.

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Radiated tortoise, native to Madagascar. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Black-headed python. Photo: David Clode.

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Rough-scaled python Morelia carinata, guarding her eggs. Photo: David Clode, Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Adventures.

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Rough-scaled python. Photo: David Clode.

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Rough Knob-tailed gecko. Photo: David Clode.

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Fijian Crested Iguana. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Amethystine or scrub python Morelia kinghorni at the Port Douglas Habitat. Photo: David Clode.

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Amethystine python. Photo: David Clode.

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Amethystine python eating a dead rat. Port Douglas Habitat. Photo: David Clode.

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Eastern Water Dragon. Cairns Aquarium. Photo: David Clode.

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Estuarine crocodile. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Freshwater crocodile. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Boa Constrictor. Hartleys. Photo: David Clode.

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Boa constrictor. Photo: David Clode.

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Green Tree Python. Cairns Aquarium. Photo: David Clode.

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