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NEWS
The CROC PRESS Regular coverage of crocodilians and people in headlines worldwide.
Wes von Papineäu, News Page Editor Email: crocnews@crocodopolis.net _________________________________________________
Week of 5 August 07
07 August 07 Note to readers: Due to a technical issue, 12 articles were not published in last week's news until today. Please click here to access last week's entries. We apologize for the inconvenience.
06 August 07 Young gator 'rescued' from swimming pool
A Pinellas County, Florida woman found a stranger swimming laps in her backyard pool this morning – a three foot/metre-long one with lots of little teeth - struggling to climb the sheer walls in an unsuccessful attempt to escape its chlorinated prison.
It was
successfully recurred and turned over to animal control. (Video at URL) 06 August 07 Baby alligator caught in Mass.
Parks and Recreation worker Corey Rollins was getting ready to mow the grass at a Blackstone, Massachusetts park when he happened across a two-foot/half-metre green sunbather in the parking lot. The basker was trapped and held in an overturned tool box until environmental authorities could arrive.
According to
state Environmental Police, it is illegal to have an alligator as a pet
in Massachusetts, but legal in nearby Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/x1493971748 06 August 07 Heavy rainfall brings boon To lone croc farm
Although heavy rainfall in the preceding months has brought innumerable miseries for the overwhelming majority of the people, it has been a boon for the Bangladesh’s crocodile farm, with its inmates laying over 500 new eggs
"Last year reproductive activities of the crocodiles were affected due to 50 percent less than usual rainfall, but this year the weather has favoured us and 14 of our crocodiles have laid eggs," said Mushtaq Ahmed, managing director and chief executive officer of Reptiles Farm Ltd.
Located
in Hatiber village of Uthura union under Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh,
the farm's 13.4 acre compound houses 68 crocodiles in 12 artificial
ponds and two lagoons.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/08/06/d70806012918.htm
07 August 07 Gone crocodile hunting on the Nile - Egyptian media is abuzz Over rare croc sighting in Cairo
For the last fortnight, Cairo’s press has been abuzz about the sighting of a crocodile in the urban portion of the urban-area Nile river. The officer in charge of the police patrolling the waterways in central Cairo confirms there is, in fact, a reptile in the river.
“There's quite a number [of Nile crocodiles] in Lake Nasser [in southern Egypt]. There's no reason why they can't drift further northward from there. But they've not been found near Cairo just because of people pressure,” says Charlie Manolis, chief scientist of Wildlife Management International based in Darwin, Australia, and the regional chairman of its Crocodile Specialist Group.
Indeed, the Nile crocodile, also known as
Crocodylus niloticus, has a long and storied place in Egyptian
culture, dating back to the Pharaonic god Sobek, who was depicted with a
crocodile head and human body. Cult worshippers built cities to him in
southern Egypt, covering them with his image. That later inspired Greek
visitors to the area to rename one of the cities "Crocodopolis,"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0807/p07s02-wogn.htm 07 August 07 Pet crocodile falls from 12th floor, breaks tooth / В Нижегородской области с балкона 12-этажного дома упал крокодил
A small Caiman tumbled from the 12th floor balcony of a Russian apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, landing on concrete 30 meters/100 feet below - but survived with only a broken tooth.
The owner said he had left the crocodile, named Khenar, alone in the flat for only a couple of hours when the accident happened. In the hot weather, the crocodile probably stuck his head out of the balcony to breathe some fresh air, but leaned out too far.
According
to the owner the crocodilian "barks like a dog," and once frightened
burglars away.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070807/70540175.html
http://www.rian.ru/incidents/20070807/70531032.html
http://www.strana.ru/doc.html?id=71073&cid=1 05 August 07 Alligator 'prowling' in Georgia county
Lurking in Long Creek near the Georgia, USA Highway 22 bridge about 5 miles south of Lexington, a gator became a local celebrity and minor traffic hazard over the past several weeks, but lately has made himself scarce.
Some of the people who have seen the gator estimate it's 8 to 10 feet long, but judging from a photograph, the alligator is more like 5 to 6 feet, said Vic VanSant of the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
The gator also could have escaped years ago from a couple of alligator farms that operated in Oglethorpe County in the 1990s, said wildlife biologist Greg Waters, coordinator of the DNR's state alligator program.
The state's
gator population is estimated at more than 200,000 now after poachers
culled the population to a low of about 30,000, Waters said.
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/080507/news_20070805060.shtml 05 August 07 Discovered southern Utah fossil Deemed 'supercrocodile'
A 75.5-million-year-old fossil found in southern Utah was once a supercrocodile that snacked on 10-foot sturgeons and devoured land-dwelling dinosaurs, a paleontologist said.
The crocodile's
size can be determined from fossilized sockets that are 1.75 inches in
diameter and once held a mouthful of jagged 5-inch teeth. The animal's
skull is believed to have been about 4 feet in length.
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/231714/4/ 04 August 07 Fisherman eaten by crocs in Kaduna
Along Nigeria’s Kaduna River, fisherman Mallam Hamisu Umar was killed and allegedly eaten up by a female crocodile and its seven young ones.
“He had just picked up his paddle and tried to paddle his canoe into the river when the vicious animal moved out of hiding and pounced on him, pulling him into the river in conjunction with its hungry young ones.
“They devoured him while his colleagues watched helplessly from the bank of the river,” eye-witnesses said.
The name Kaduna
was said to be derived from crocodile (Kada) as the whole area is
infested with the dangerous animal.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/august07/04082007/f504082007.html
02 August 07 Douglass Township gator To gain freedom after 1-way trip
An 3
foot/metre-long alligator found near a Douglass Township, Pennsylvania
park soon will be on its way south to join another reptile that was
captured at the same locale two weeks earlier. The goal is for the
reptile to be released into the wild.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=52989 02 August 07 Alligator left at Big Flats pet store
In a new twist to an urban myth of alligators living in New York City sewers, someone claims to have found an alligator abandoned in Elmira, New York.
A woman turned in a 2-foot/.6 metre-long alligator in a pillowcase with its mouth tied at the a Petco store. The woman claimed it was found abandoned at the park.
Store personnel did not want to turn away the animal, Sgt. Joel Klose, supervisor of the Elmira Police Department's Animal Control Unit said. "They called us. They were kind of in a hurry to get it out of the store."
"At this point in time, (DEC is) talking to people at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester up here in Monroe County to see if they're able to take it … It's a young alligator, and that's what they're going to try to do so they don't have to destroy it because it's not legal for anyone to have it here in New York state." http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/NEWS01/708020332
01 August 07 'Bonnie' the BPA alligator captured
"Bonnie," the 3-foot/metre long alligator spotted in a Clark County, Washington State, USA pond has a new home.
Crews from Bonneville Power found the roaming animal while they were working near some of the company’s transmission towers. That's where the name "Bonnie" came from.
Neighbors took plenty of pictures of the alligator, but most said they won't miss him. "I'm kind of sad," said neighbor Jan Atkins, "But I'm glad he's leaving." Atkins thinks the alligator may have eaten, or at least scared, a family of ducks away from the pond.
As of July 22,
state law prohibits people from keeping certain “potentially dangerous”
animals or bringing them into the state. People who can document that
they obtained those animals before July 22 are allowed to keep them.
Call Clark County animal control at 360-397-2488.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_080107_news_alligator_captured.d14fde8d.html
http://www.katu.com/news/local/8854872.html
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/08012007news176933.cfm 01 August 07 Boy finds alligator in backyard
It started out as a lazy Saturday afternoon around a Houma, Louisiana backyard pool but turned into the answer to an 18-year-old’s wish.
Yen-Zen Chen, a native of Taiwan, is spending the summer in Houma to improve his English. He expressed his desire to see an alligator before he returned to Asia.
His wish came true when a dog located a 4-foot/1.2 metre gator hiding under a poolside fern after it had wandered into the yard through a hole in a nearby fence.
The
family was able to keep the feisty reptile cornered until an alligator
handler arrived and Chen got his photograph taken with the reptile as
proof of his close encounter with nature. “He was jumping up and
down like he won a million dollars,” a family member said of Chen’s
reaction, adding the boy cradled the alligator like a baby.
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl080107tpalligator.d2a18000.html
07 August 07 Croc conservation booth to be featured At world's largest herp gathering
Crocodopolis and the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park will sponsor the Crocodilian Conservation Booth at the 2007 National Reptile Breeders Expo in the Daytona Beach, Florida, August 18 and 19, to raise funds for crocodile conservation. Photo opportunities with an albino American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) will be available for a nominal donation. http://www.crocodopolis.net/newscrocboothdaytona2007.htm
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