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21-foot monster crocodile caught
Wildlife authorities in the Philippines say they have captured a 21-foot-long, 2,370-pound saltwater crocodile, thought to be the largest creature of its kind now in captivity.
The croc was captured in Agusan del Sur marsh on the southern Philippine island of Mindinao, according to a report on GMA News. Hunters had been trying to capture it for 21 days, the report said. It was finally captured on Saturday by a team of about 30 men who used meat to bait it and an eight millimeter metal cable to snare it, according to an Agence-France Presse report on ABS.CBN News.
Edwin Cox Elorde, mayor of the remote town of Bunawan near where the croc was caught, said the reptile will become the star of a nature park there, according to the AFP report.
The previous largest crocodile in captivity is an 18-footer in Australia, according to Guinness World Records.
Crocodiles are suspected in the deaths of a local fisherman earlier this year and a girl a few years ago, according to the news reports, but authorities could not say whether the monster caught Saturday was responsible.
Cox Elorde told Inquirer news in the Philippines that there could be a thousand more large crocodiles in the marsh, but he denied earlier reports that locals would try to catch another.
He also said the croc captured Saturday has been named Lolong, after local hunter Ernesto “Lolong” Conate, who died of a stroke while helping plan the capture of the reptile.
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This is like jail, reforming a criminal that has caused great harm to society and making it contribute so that it will make up for what it has destroyed
bsitz : Please stop with the 14000 yr thing, The cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux are for some of them at least 30,000 yrs old. We have been here a while. Don't get angry there's way too much of that.
The best comment of all that I read "I'd like to wear your skin someday"
it would be very fun when you ride on it and go for safari...............
[sorry for my english]
According to news here in the Philippines there is a larger crocodile shall be capture next week in the same place
The Crocodile one are smaller than shall be taken next week..
Leave these things alone. Too bad for the fisherman and the girl. They lived there they knew what was out there. We have people in these US streets more deadly than this natural beauty. So now, lets lock it up to make money off of it. Why not, we have managed to screw up and destroy every natural thing on this planet beyond repair. Humans are over populated, we need many many more natural predators, if not, we will suffer disease and only the mutated version of us will survive. Isn't that the excuse some use to pretty much wipe species out? Don't watch CNN, you don't have to. What was that " the true sign of insanity is repeating something over and over and expecting a different out come. YOU came YOU listened YOU found crap. Go some where else.
Tastes like chicken
I remember in Florida we used to think that twelve foot gators were scary as hell. Just thinking about this monster makes me cringe.
Hey tina i am from the phillipines, and you have no idea how easy you got it here in the US, you think its wrong for them to capture this huge animal that terrorizes villagers? you may as well be convicted along with it, when i was living in the phillipines my family would have to hunt and chase after huge snakes that would literally eat babies, you are more cruel then that croc if you think its ok for it to be killing humans.
Tina , you think that little girl chose to live next to a big ol croc ? You think that fisherman would go anywhere near that croc unless he needed to, to take care of his family ? You Tina are a clown. I could see if you complained because they killed it , but they let the darn thing live. You must have a red nose and big feet.
Now the dying croc (being not used living away from it's natural habitat) is fast becoming an attraction to the local & foreign community and locals claims that a BIGGER croc who allegedlly ate a water buffalo and a fisherman is still at large and may come looking for his mate anytime soon bringing more fear to the townfolks. I feel sad for the croc & remorse to the locals. I just hope they'll release & leave the poor beast alone to go back to his family of GIANT CROCS who's probably only following it's primeval instinct of survival. So what about the rights of this endangered giant? PICS & RAW VIDEO LINK BELOW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRCD2MQgxs
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Wow
This country is also full of human crocodiles
http://dc4mf.org/en/content/dangerous-dynasties-northern-mindanao
WOW!! what a big one..where will they put 'em? It might be dangerous if they keep it in the zoo or somewhere else.. kill it?(of course NOT)..please do the right thing~ =))
When beasts become to large to control in the wild, man will kill it or cage it..
I agree with Tina. The croc will probably die anyway from the stress of capture. It's just like you blood thirsty hunters who go after the biggest and strongest of whatever species you'r hunting not realizing you may be weakening the gene pool of the species. I pray the day hunters trespass on my property, they may find out what its like themselves.
Perhaps whatever the hunters are hunting on your property will get you...Idjit.
Why would you capture such a creature only to put it in a zoo? It belongs in the wild not behind bars.How very sad.
I agree
Its sad that it will be put on display as a sideshow freak, and not living in its natural habitat.
Reminds me of the scene in "Jaws" when the townfolk posed foolishly with the captured shark. Let nature be – this is beautiful animal that has no proven tie to any human attacks.