This is the shocking moment villagers found a cobra swallowing a python in Thailand.

Grape Praveenrat noticed the two snakes entwined on a piece of wood near her house in Nakhon Pathom province on April 2. The venomous serpent had killed the python and was in the middle of consuming it.

The rescuer disentangled the reptiles and held the cobra with his bare hands before placing it inside a sack. The python it was preying on lay limp on the ground and was later seen with its head and upper body mangled and almost shredded.

Grape said: 'I've lived here for more than 20 years and no snakes have ever entered the house. And then I find the cobra biting the python. After seeing them, I was confused about what happened to the python's head.'

Pythons kill their prey by strangling them to death, while cobras strike at the base of their target’s neck to inject a deadly venom.

Some snakes, including pythons and cobras, engage in cannibalism when they clash over food or territory.