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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 14 October 07
23 September 07 Year in review
Check out Wes' commentary on the croc news of the last year. - I.D.
19 October 07 Florida woman bags monster gator
Lauren Brown of New Smyrna Beach, Florida bagged a record size gator during Florida's alligator harvesting season, Tuesday night, October 16th.
Ms. Brown bagged a 12 foot 8 1/2 inch/ 3.9 meter American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), having a girth of 51 1/2 inches and an approximate weight of 550 pounds on a lake in Lake County, Florida. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/10/emw562279.htm
19 October 07 Alligator captured in California
The sick-cat room at the Agoura Hills Animal Shelter in California got an unexpected visitor today — an alligator.
The 2 1/2-foot/.8 meter -long gator was captured late Thursday in Thousand Oaks by a Ventura County sheriff’s deputy.
Authorities did not know where the alligator came from, but they assume someone was keeping it as a pet, Detective Eric Buschow said. http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/oct/19/morning-report-alligator-captured/
18 October 07 Lake Rukwa crocs for culling
The government in Tanzania has issued hunting
licences to four firms to hunt up 269 crocodiles on Lake Rukwa in an
effort to reduce the number of the killer reptiles that affect human
activities on the lake.
18 October 07 Thai police hunt fugitive crocodiles
Police with assault rifles hunted Friday for 36 crocodiles that escaped from a farm in northeastern Thailand when their pens were flooded after heavy rains, an official said.
Search parties shot and killed eight of the animals as they slithered through the flooded district Friday morning, said Chin Konjohor, chief of the area's municipal office.
Police and village volunteers have been scouring the Nonsoong district of Nakhon Ratchasima province by boat, day and night, since the crocodiles escaped on Tuesday, he said. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXw2yvBnIYQzutHdaWHx_NOLESZgD8SC2VK00
19 October 07 Drunken tourist sleeps After bloody croc encounter
A tourist who was attacked by a crocodile while swimming in an Australian river was so drunk that he fell asleep at his campsite before going to hospital for treatment, a report said Friday.
Matt Martin was camping in an area of the northeastern state of Queensland known to be inhabited by crocodiles when he drank what he later described as "half a slab" -- or 12 cans of beer.
When he dived into the river at Cow Bay in the topical far north of the state, he landed on a crocodile.
After a brief wrestling match with the reptile, Martin emerged with gashes on his face requiring 40 stitches, The Australian newspaper reported. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iHHWj-xT1cOhSp9zD54HDhu_NHLQ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/19/wcroc119.xml
18 October 07 Giant alligator captured Near Florida's Lake Monroe Trappers caught a massive alligator lurking just outside the Preserves at Lake Monroe subdivision in Seminole County. Authorities said the gator measured in at 13 feet 4 inches and weighed around 1,000 pounds. A trapper said it's the second largest alligator he's ever seen. http://www.wesh.com/news/14360415/detail.html
19 October 07 Australian man escapes from croc's jaws
A Newcastle, NSW, Austrailia man has revealed how he cheated death after inadvertently diving on a crocodile during a drunken sunset swim. Matt Martin was camping at Cow Bay, north of the Daintree River in far north Queensland, when he dived through a shallow wave and into the jaws of the lurking croc.
"I thought I was dead," the 35-year-old construction worker said. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22612061-5007132,00.html
19 October 07 Terri Irwin lashes out at pub over croc pie
Australia Zoo has put the bite on the Caloundra Bowls Club for serving crocodile for dinner. A special chicken and crocodile mornay pie served up Friday night offended some customers, who complained to the zoo. Club head chef Donna Forrest said she received a tough-lashing from Terri Irwin's personal assistant early this week. "She said the crocodile was Steve's favorite animal and she was disappointed in us," Ms Forrest said. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22611815-5005941,00.html
17 October 07 Man sentenced to death For leaving girl to be eaten alive By alligators
A murderer who dumped a five-year-old girl in
alligator-infested waters where she was eaten alive has been sentenced
to death.
Meanwhile Braddy drove the girl to a section of the Everglades known as Alligator Alley and dropped her in the water. Her body was found two days later. http://www.eveningecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=234617214&p=z346y79zx&n=234617974 http://www.nbc6.net/news/14344630/detail.html
14 October 07 Australian Pol to talk crocs in Taiwan
An Australian politician has been given a scholarship to champion two thing close to the Territory's heart _ crocodiles and gas.
Deputy Opposition Leader Terry Mills left for a four-week study trip to Taiwan yesterday.The tour is being paid for by the Taipei Government.
Mr Mills is expected to be criticised by Labor for missing next week's parliamentary sittings in Darwin to visit a country not formally recognised by Australia.
The Blain MLA will represent Territory businesses in trying to establish a market in Taiwan for Territory crocodile meat.
"The Territory crocodile industry is focused on the skins,'' he said. "The number of crocodiles to be harvested each year is about to be increased and farmers want more value-added benefits.'' http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2007/10/14/2341_ntnews.html
16 October 07 Good looks can only get you so far
Australian scientist Sally Isberg is trying to improve the quality of captive crocodiles by studying their DNA to see which animals will grow faster and live longer and produce the best skins.
She said crocs were now chosen for breeding only on their outward appearance.
And how do you take blood from a huge male croc?
"With a syringe
and needle," Dr Isberg said. "Very carefully."
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2007/10/16/2355_ntnews.html 16 October 07 Those ain't doggies
A short expose of wrestling classes at the Colorado Gators Alligator Farm & Reptile Park. 400 crocodilians bask in the 87-degree F/ 30 C water provided by a geothermal well after feasting on tilapia from a nearby fish farm.
The farm’s three-hour ‘wrestling’ course costs $100 and takes you through handling 2.5 footers/.75 metre before graduating to one taking on a seven footer/2.1 metres.
This requires standing knee deep in a muddy pond teeming with grown-up alligators — rollicking and thrashing just three feet away. "Don't worry — they don't see very well in water," assures Mr. Young, stepping over thick serrated tails in a bid to find his patients. "If you see one coming at you, don't move. He'll think you are a tree."
About 150 students, a third of them women, have graduated from the alligator wrestling school in the seven years of its existence. There have been no serious injuries to students. Light cuts and bruises occur on average once or twice a year, Mr. Young says.
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071016/CULTURE/110160037/1015 15 October 07 Watch for alligators in the creek
A Texas Kleberg County Parks Director has issued an alert to area residents that an 3 foot/metre-long alligator has been sighted in a creek in Dick Kleberg Park.
Temporary
paper signs were posted in numerous areas along the creek to warn people
of the alligator sighting: "We do not want to alarm anyone but
simply inform them and encourage everyone to stay safe while playing at
the park."
http://www.aliceechonews.com/articles/2007/10/12/kingsville_journal/local_news/news02.txt
15 October 07 62-Year-old crocodile dies in Mpigi
A 62-year-old, one tonne crocodile which was believed to have mauled more than 80 fishermen in Bugiri district since 1983, was found dead on Friday at Buwama Crocodile Farm.
"It is also bad that it mauled people before it was brought here, but all this occurred because its territory was under invasion," said Alex Mutamba, a manager at the farm.
Makerere
University pathologists conducted a postmortem, but results have not
been released.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/592016 12 October 07 Detienen a traficante con 12 cocodrilos y 23 tortugas
As per title,
smuggler caught with 12 baby crocs.
http://www.tabascohoy.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=142924 11 October 07 Editorial: A brutal reality check
A Georgia’s paper’s take on the death of an elderly woman who was killed by an alligator on Skidaway Island, that Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.
Coastal Georgia isn't Disney World. The natural environment that gives this corner of the country its beauty and charm is largely nature in the raw. The alligators, snakes and other slithery creatures that share their habitats with man are real, not robots …respecting these ancient denizens of Georgia's coast is smarter.
Man may like to
think that he has conquered nature. But the best he can do is to adapt
to his surroundings. Call last Friday's attack a brutal reality check.
http://www.savannahnow.com/node/372826 11 October 07 Alligators: Aggressive by nature?
Director Chris Gentile of the Oatland
Island Wildlife Center discusses alligators: "Alligators recognize
different voices, they recognize different smells, they recognize
different peoples faces, so even though they don't appear very smart,
they're very intelligent."
http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2007-10-10-0015.html
11 October 07 Pennsylvania alligator thief Gets a 'life sentence'
I’m not going
to wreck the story with a synopsis … but to say that the gator thief got
his!
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=176598&format=html
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