The battle and the bulge: Amazing pictures show python making a meal of cockatoo

These amazing pictures show the moments a python captures a sulphur-crested cockatoo, squeezes it slowly to death and eats it whole.

The photographs were taken by artist Cindy Lane who watched the TWO HOUR event taking place in her back garden in Cairns in Queensland, Australia.

Ms Lane was painting in her studio when she heard a 'couple of loud squawks' coming from the bougainvillea tree in her backyard.