'Cannibal horses' eat one of their own in the Australian Alps - PHOTO+VIDEO

But a pair of Canberra men on a camping trip to Kosciuszko National Park last month were left stunned when they discovered a small band of starving brumbies feeding on another horse's flesh.In the words of witness Dr Don Driscoll, the wild horses 'had turned to cannibalism'.Ecologists Dr Driscoll and Dr Sam Banks first noticed the dead horse, which had a huge hole in its abdomen, on the way up the hill from Dead Horse Gap, in the national park located between New South Wales and Victoria.It's intestines appeared to have been nibbled out. It wasn't clear what could have caused the damage.'I had no idea what could've done that,' ecologist Dr Driscoll, from the Australian National University, told Daily Mail Australia.But the culprits became clear the next day, as the campers headed back down the hill.Three emaciated horses stood near the dead brumby. Two had shoved their snouts inside the fallen creature's abdominal cavity. (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az