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CROCODOPOLIS world of crocodilians TM SCIENCE · CULTURE · INDUSTRY · NEWS · COMMUNICATION · CONSERVATION
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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 02 September 07
04 September 07 Crocodile snatches girl from mother
Villagers in a remote Papua New Guinea Gulf-province village watched in horror as a crocodile snatched an 8-year-old girl from her mother 8 metres/25 feet from the banks of a river and killed her.
It gripped the eight-year-old girl firmly in its jaw as the mother fought valiantly, but in vain, to pull her away to safety.
“Villagers
reported that the crocodile disappeared into the waters, then surfaced
again with the girl still trapped in its jaws. It then dived and
disappeared,” a spokesman for police said.
http://www.thenational.com.pg/090407/nation2.htm 04 September 07 Crocs a constant 'menace' in Australia
A News.com of
Australia's listing of 14 mostly-tragic human and crocodile interactions
since 1999.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22362092-952,00.html 03 September 07 Gator shows up in Michigan
Grand Rapids Michigan native Channing Haywood rodeo-ed a wayward 2 foot/half-metre alligator in the bushes near her apartment into a ‘cat carrier’ using a broom. She admitted to being apprehensive, but she knew she couldn't let it roam.
"I was nervous. The adrenaline was pumping," she said. "I just didn't want the thing coming after one of the kids...And I didn't want it roaming around the neighborhood eating my dog."
Dan Malone, curator at the local John Ball Zoo, where the animal was taken, said the gator appeared to be healthy and well-maintained, between 6 months and a year old. Malone says it is likely that someone set the alligator free when it became too much trouble.
Malone said he will keep the gator in an
enclosure where it will be warm and feed it with dead rodents he keeps
in the freezer for his snakes. He plans to contact the Michigan Society
of Herpetologists to see if the gator can be placed somewhere
appropriate. http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news
38/1188801331209050.xml&coll=6 02 September 07 Giant gator caught on $20 fishing rod
Should Wal-Mart need a testimonial for its fishing rods it need look no further than Alabama’s Bob Schaffield. The novice reeled in a state-record 12-foot, 8-inch, 540-pound alligator after a three hour battle using 80-pound-test Spiderwire on a Calcutta reel … on a $20 Wal-Mart rod.
Alabama
opened its first alligator season ever last year in the Mobile Delta.
Alligators in Alabama have recovered to the point where they are a
nuisance in the Mobile Delta and Lake Eufaula area. http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf/base/
sports/1188722772211350.xml&coll=2 31 August 07 Sarco, le plus grand crocodile De tous les temps
From Switzerland we
have the story (and photo of a resin recreation) of “Sarco’, the
largest (extinct) crocodile of the world. The 110-million year old
fossil of Sarcosuchus imperator
is estimated to be 12-metres/ 39-feet long and was found in Niger,
Africa. http://www.tdg.ch/pages/home/tribune_de_geneve/info_express/
monde/detail_monde/(contenu)/126761
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