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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 21 October 07
23 September 07 Year in review
Check out Wes' commentary on the croc news of the last year. - I.D.
24 October 07 Alligators 'chases' Fla. woman While she checks mailbox
Bradenton, Florida - Neighbors in the Summerfield Crest section of Lakewood Ranch enjoy the peaceful ponds here, but they're terrified of the creature that's been lurking in their yards and their streets.
Karen Sherrard says an eight-foot/2.4 meter - long alligator attacked her early Saturday morning when she checked her mail.
"I took off out of instinct and it ran after me. It came on the sidewalk and ran down two houses," said Sherrard. (The description of the alligator's "chasing" behavior seems suspicious. -I.D.) http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=66092
24 October 07 Big alligator on Alabama causeway
It was quite a commute for on Baldwin County, A.labama woman this morning who ran into a rather scaly speed bump on her way to work.
Chasity Gulsby has quite a tale to tell. "Driving across the causeway and all of a sudden I was driving and I hit this bump went up in the air and went down and I looked back and there was an alligator. I hit an alligator on the causeway."
She could hardly believe it, "I turned around and went back and looked and there's a gator laying on the side of the road and I'm like what?"
Alabama Fish and Wildlife officers say it's not unusual to see alligators on the causeway. This one turned out to be 12 ft./3.7 m in length. http://wkrg.com/news/article/alligator_on_the_causeway/6255/
24 October 07 Missouri cop turns alligator wrangler
In Miller County, Missouri, USA, an Eldon police
officer went beyond the call of duty when a run-in with an alligator and
six-foot /1.8 meter snake turned a normal work day into an experience
right out of 'Croc Files.'
23 October 07 Croc gets status, Caymanian trainingA crocodile that was captured in Cayman waters last December is to become a permanent fixture on Grand Cayman.
The female croc, which measures seven feet, eight inches/2.3 meters in length, is to be a permanent display animal at what was originally to be her temporary home – Boatswain’s Beach. http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1025994
23 October 07 20ft crocodiles still on the loose
An update to last week's "Thai police hunt fugitive crocodiles":
Residents of Non Sung, Thailand, have more than a wet carpet to deal with after flooding -- eleven hungry crocodiles some as big as 6 m/20ft long.
A total of 34 crocodiles escaped over the top of their fenced enclosure at a reptile farm which breeds the animals for their meat and skins when a flood hit the area on Wednesday.
Shotgun weilding marksmen crusing northern Thailand in boats have found and killed 23 of the reptiles but the remaining 11 remain at large. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=72327&in_page_id=2
21 October 07
New York City tenants gone wild,
Read a report by the New York Daily News about exotic pets illegally kept in New York City apartments. Among the animals? You guessed it- crocodilians, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/21/2007-10-21_tenants_gone_wild_judging_by_their_pets-1.html
21 October 07 Croc kills cow at Kakadu waterhole Not major news, but an interesting moment in nature: A Fisherman told yesterday how he watched a giant saltwater crocodile stalk and kill a cow at a popular Kakadu waterhole in Australia. John Lantzke captured this extraordinary photograph of the 5m-plus crocodile just moments before it struck. Photo at URL. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22623331-5001021,00.html 20 October 07 Fl. retiree sabotages alligator traps A Florida retiree has riled other residents at his senior citizens community and wildlife officials by sabotaging alligator traps. Bill Warner, 80, of Sun City Center faces charges including theft, harassment and sabotage, The Tampa Tribune reported. He plans to represent himself at his trial next week. "I'm defending the damn alligators -- simple as that," he said. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/127398.html
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