A huge feral cat has been spotted in Australia's Simpson Desert carrying a sand goanna it had just killed.
Researcher Emma Spencer posted an image of the footage of the cat at the Ethabuka Reserve near the Queensland-Northern Territory border. The video was taken on wildlife cameras that have been set up to study decomposing animals in their natural habitat.
Spencer, a PhD researcher for the Global Ecology Lab and the Desert Ecology Group at the University of Sydney, said it was a "bit shocking" to see such a cat with such a large prey.
"Feral cats are captured pretty commonly on our cameras," she said. "It doesn't matter if we're all the way out in the Simpson Desert, in the Snowy Mountains, in Kosciuszko National Park, or in the Blue Mountains, we'll always spot a few cats on our wildlife monitoring cameras.
