Toothless, a green tree python, was rushed to the Mount Ommaney vet in Brisbane, after she accidentally swallowed her lower jaw bone while feeding.

Most green tree pythons that are available for purchase have been bred in captivity which has been increasingly more successful saving the animal any trauma from shipping here from Indonesia.

He said in all his time travelling to the spot, he's "never seen green pythons feed during the day" before. Green tree pythons are only found in rainforests in the Cape York area in Australia.

A large Green Tree Python was found, police say, slithering out of the jacket of a suspect in a break and enter investigation.

Native to the rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia, green tree pythons are non venomous. Green tree pythons are carnivores and feed on small mammals and occasionally reptiles.