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300kg croc captured in Darwin river
#65638 - 10/11/06 02:33 PM

300kg croc captured in Darwin river

Last Update: Tuesday, November 7, 2006. 6:32pm (AEDT)

A 3.7 metre saltwater crocodile has been captured in the Howard River at Howard Springs, south-east of Darwin.

Parks and Wildlife ranger Tommy Nichols says the male weighed more than 300 kilograms and took several staff to remove from the trap.

Mr Nichols says they have been on the look out for the saltie after finding a number of females over the past few weeks.

"We got another one out of there on Friday, which was a 2.7 metre female," he said.

"We've also taken two other females out of there so it's been a quite a productive little area."

He says removing it was quite an effort.

"Two of us had a hard time lifting him, so we had a couple of other blokes turn up and they gave us a hand," he said.

"He was a very cranky animal and I gave him some drugs, but he was still quite cranky."

The saltie was taken to the NT Crocodile Farm at Noonamah.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1783261.htm

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Rangers to hunt Cape Tribulation croc [Re: NitroX]
#65639 - 10/11/06 02:34 PM

Rangers to hunt Cape Tribulation croc

Last Update: Thursday, November 9, 2006. 7:39am (AEDT)

North Queensland wildlife rangers will head to Cape Tribulation in far north Queensland today to trap and remove the crocodile that bit a Belgian tourist on the leg.

Authorities say the 24-year-old man was trying to take a photo of the two-metre reptile late yesterday when it lunged from the water.

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service's Mark Read says the man escaped with relatively minor injuries.

"A tourist up in Cape Tribulation was trying to get a photograph of a crocodile and appeared to have been tapping the water to entice the animal closer," Dr Read said.

"That seems as though it has obviously provoked the crocodile, who may have felt either attracted to the sound of the tapping as a potential attack cue or may have felt threatened territorially.

"Unfortunately the animal has come in and attacked the gentleman, biting him on the leg.

"Staff from a local pharmacy were called in, who patched him up and then he was transported from Cape Tribulation to the hospital at Mossman."

Dr Read says people should exercise common sense.

"Any behaviour that humans exhibit that may attract the animal closer in a situation like that is potentially dangerous and places the person at risk," he said.

"So it seems to have been a situation that could easily have been avoided."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1784292.htm

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