It is difficult to gauge how much animals contribute to the well being of other animals, but in the case of Augusta, a carpet python, it amounts to $1401.

The story of Augusta's donation to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia began with her visits to the property of Greg and Margaret Church in New South Wales. The Churches already have had several encounters with Augusta, they've even helped her in some instances. The Churches had no idea that Augusta visited their chicken coops, which they littered with golf balls to encourage chickens to lay eggs. To the amazement of the Churches, they found Augusta one day, knobby in a portion of her body, leading them to surmise that she might have been responsible for some of the missing golf balls from the chicken coop. She was taken to the hospital at the Currumbin sanctuary and the doctors there were able to extract four golf balls. The wildlife sanctuary then auctioned the golf balls online and netted $A1401, which will be added to the funds for a new hospital at the wildlife sanctuary.

The carpet python, indigenous to New Guinea and Australia has an average length of 8 feet. It comes with a base color of black or beige, with cross-bands or stripes. Regional species distribution can be differentiated from one another by speckles of yellow, gold, rust or grays in their coloration. Their diet consists primarily of birds and small mammals.

 <em>Reference:www.news.com.au</em>