Big snake...eating water buffalo?

A friend sent me this photo. You really need to enlarge it to actually see what it is. Any idea what KIND of snake this might be? Does the picture look real? I can't tell.
posted by Michele on Friday, October 26, 2007 - link to this photo

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Wed, January 2, 2008 - 6:21 PM
It's a real photo - but not a buffalo.

Snopes.com has this listed with the details:

"The serpent captured in this picture is an olive python, one of Australia's largest snakes. What the python appears to be hauling out of the water is not a cow but a wallaby - still a very large animal in comparison to the snake itself, but a type of prey that pythons have been known to ingest before."

The wallaby was already dead in this case - the python was not able to lift it out of the water although it tried for an hour!

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