Wildlife photographers and soon-to-be-married couple Jai Randhawa and Emily Kate Boys have spent "countless hours exploring" what Australia has to offer, particularly in and around . The Gold Coast pair, aged 27 and 29, are "avid lovers of all things wildlife and nature" — but never before have they been quite so excited by a discovery. While exploring Springbrook National Park in the Gold Coast Hinterland earlier this year, they discovered what Jai described as a "very rare sight".
Images and video shared with Yahoo News Australia show a feeding on a vibrant green orange-eyed tree frog tree frog. Despite their time spent outdoors, Jai admits they've never seen anything quite like this when speaking with Yahoo. He said it's the "craziest thing we have ever seen".
Mostly because the crayfish in question is known to be a scavenger, feeding off "dead and decaying plant matter". But in this instance, it was "actively eating the frog alive" "Throughout the year we go on all sorts of adventures looking for cool ," the hobbyist photographer told Yahoo. "On this night it was nice and warm with lots of rain so we were driving around looking for frogs, snakes and crayfish — pretty much whatever is out and about".
Emily was first to see the crayfish feeding on the frog from afar, Jai explained. Not knowing what it was they admit there was some "confusion" at first. "We saw an odd collection of colours in a puddle and we couldn't work out what it could be," he said.
"When we pulled o.