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NEWS
The CROC PRESS Regular coverage of crocodilians and people in headlines worldwide.
Wes von Papineäu,
News
Page Editor
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Week of 24 August 08
CROCTV:
22 July 08 Gator water dance
When you're a male gator looking for a mate, you don't need a dance floor to make all the right moves; the warm waters of the Everglades will do just fine, thank you. (Video: © National Geographic.) See it here.
24 August 08
Alligator on
loose in UK just a soft toy 22 August 08 Tropical storm Fay Sends wildlife scurrying for cover
Tropical storm Fay has driven alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their swampy lairs into flooded streets, backyards and doorsteps.
Alligators live in all 67 Florida counties, and state officials say they receive more than 18,000 alligator-related complaints each year. But the floodwaters heighten the risk of an encounter with people because the creatures search for a safe place to wait out the storm.
"They are trying to find dry land,
someplace to hide," said officer Lenny Salberg of the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/search/article/393511 22 August 08 Reptile deters wrecker driver's recovery effort
In Daytona Beach, Florida a sport utility vehicle plunged into a pond near the golf course at Indigo Lakes.
When the wrecker arrived to recover the sunken vehicle, the driver noticed two alligators nearby. "They looked pretty big."
Trappers killed
an 8-foot/2.4 metre-long gator and the wreckers were able to
recover the truck.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/EastVolusia/evlEAST04082208.htm 20 August 08 Gator aid in Nova Scotia
In Nova Scotia, Geoff Battrum of Ottawa’s Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo is on tour of the Atlantic provinces educating people about reptiles by giving them hands-on learning experience. They had a crocodile, an alligator and two caimans with them at the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition.
The display animals are those either dropped off at the zoo or ‘rescued’ from inappropriate situations. “We don’t like using the word rescued because people think the animal wasn’t well looked after, where most of the ones we get are very well looked after. Mostly the person just realizes or something clicks that they shouldn’t have it (the crocodilian),” said Battrum.
As far as Battrum is concerned, he has one of the best jobs in the world.
“I get to travel and play with crocodiles,” he laughed.
http://www.trurodaily.com/index.cfm?sid=164176&sc=68 21 August 08 Crocodile eats Bangladesh man Who sought its blessing A crocodile killed and devoured a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh who waded into a pond next to a shrine hoping to be blessed by the animal, police said.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkAEvoST8RLJ4zyQH4i2z66ki4pg
21 August 08 Tier-Unfall: Krokodil in Bangladesch frisst Mann auf
In
Bangladesch ist ein 25-Jähriger in einen Krokodilstümpel
gestiegen, um den Tieren eine Opfergabe zu überbringen. Das
Ritual wurde dem Mann zum Verhängnis - und er selbst zum
Opfer der Krokodile.
http://www.zeit.de/news/artikel/2008/08/21/2598049.xml 21 August 08 Verslonden Bengaal hoopte op zegen krokodil
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/1741022/__Verslonden_man_wilde_zegen_krokodil__.html 20 August 08 Lost caiman picked up in Colorado
In Colorado, police dispatch got a very unique call when someone reported seeing a 38-inch/metre-long caiman on the side of the road near the Super 8 motel in Parachute.
Apparently the animal was so docile and unthreatening that authorities determined it was someone’s pet. The caiman, of a species that is a South American cousin of the aligator, was brought to the CARE facility first and then transferred to the vet tech school at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus.
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/128853 20 August 08 Trapped And... Snapped - Pasir Ris croc caught on fishing line
After five years of ‘stories’, fishermen in Singapore’s Pasir Ris beach caught a 3-foot/metre-long crocodile.
After hauling away the trussed animal , the national water agency PUB and the National Parks Board then conducted a further ‘gator hunt’, albeit an unsuccessful one.
An interview local declared 'After seeing the crocodile, I
am not going to swim here anymore. I don't think it's safe
and I don't want to risk my life.'
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,173772,00.html 16 August 08 'Pip' the rare croc comes to Jersey
New Jersey’s Cape May County Park & Zoo has a rare Asian Tomistoma - its first ever - on display through October.
American zoos are trying to breed these rare reptiles to save the species, found in freshwater rivers and lakes in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Zookeeper Katie Quigley said the crocodile, named for it's genus (also known as the Malayan Gharial, Tomistoma schlegelii), a female named Pip, eats live goldfish. It is less aggressive than other crocodile species, but that does not make it less dangerous. Keepers are careful around it, she said.
According to the Tomistoma Task Force, no more than a dozen
zoos around the United States have these crocodiles. The
Tomistoma can grow to more than 16
feet.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/181/story/230881.html
The following are reports from México about a young man
who
was ‘attacked’ by eight crocodiles, allegedly working in
unison. 13 August 08 Cocodrilos decapitan a un perro en la Laguna del Carpintero
http://www.metronoticias.com.mx/id.pl?id=6191&relax=COCODRILOS&area=Tampico,Tam 11 August 08
Cocodrilos matan a un hombre en el
sur de Tamaulipas - Encuentran el cuerpo con numerosas
mordeduras
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/69304.html 11 August 08 Cocodrilos devoran a joven en Laguna del Carpintero en Tamaulipas
http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=378117
11 August 08 Alertan en Altamira por presencia de cocodrilos http://www.metronoticias.com.mx/id.pl?id=6047&relax=COCODRILOS
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