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‘Robo Croc’ the crocodile has reconstructive surgery after car accident [Pics]
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| 3/20/09
Posted on 03/20/2009 10:36:20 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The four-hour operation took place at Miami’s Metrozoo.
The giant male predator, dubbed Robo Croc after the operation left it with a significant amount of metal dotted around its face, was close to death after having its head crushed by a car in the Florida Keys last year.
‘Robo Croc’ the crocodile has reconstructive surgery after car accident
Unable to move its jaw, the distressed animal had not eaten for three months.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crocodile; reconstructive; robocroc; surgery
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To: LibWhacker
Instead of wasting money on this, why not find a better use for this Croc!
Boots!
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posted on
03/20/2009 10:37:53 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
To: SoConPubbie
A nice hand bag too!
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posted on
03/20/2009 10:38:59 PM PDT
by
Razz Barry
(Round'em up, send'em home.)
To: LibWhacker
How did RC survive with his HEAD CRUSHED BY A CAR?!
That’s a miracle in itself—I wonder if the vets requested bailout money to do this surgery? Or was it included among those 9000 earmarks in the omnibus?
Or just kindhearted animal doctors donating their time and resources to save a poor suffering animal that others might have just put down right after the accident?
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posted on
03/20/2009 10:39:56 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: SoConPubbie
Oh, I can’t believe you went there!
[bop upside the head w/ the nerfbat]
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posted on
03/20/2009 10:40:58 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: pillut48
How did RC survive with his HEAD CRUSHED BY A CAR?! No mammal I know of could've done it. Reptiles can go a looooong time without eating.
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:04:25 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:04:43 PM PDT
by
MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: LibWhacker
"Reptiles can go a looooong time without eating."
I thought lawyers have to be regularly fed ?
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:05:11 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: LibWhacker
Looks more like Borg o Croc
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:11:09 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
( We are "O" so f---ed)
To: LibWhacker
Meanwhile, insurance companies won’t pay for heart surgery for those they deem not “economically viable”.
I say skin the bastage, sell the hide, gut n’ strip the meat and send it to 3rd world Countries for those poor, starving future terrorists.
The driver should be cited for failure finish the job.
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:22:29 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
(Trow da' bum out!)
To: LibWhacker
a waste of a great pair of boots
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:38:01 PM PDT
by
getarope
(I will give Obama as much respect as the MSM gave W.)
To: LibWhacker
Hopefully he won’t go out and eat some poor human.
To: LibWhacker
They couldn’t have just put the thing out of its misery? What a ridiculous waste of time and money.
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:53:59 PM PDT
by
Catphish
To: Catphish
They couldnt have just put the thing out of its misery? What a ridiculous waste of time and money.
It must be because of the crocodile shortage. We can't spare any more.
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posted on
03/20/2009 11:57:24 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: pillut48
It probably didn’t have any brain damage at all. These beasts have a brain about the size of a walnut inside that huge skull. Seems like it was mainly the jaw/snout end that got damaged anyway, and not the part where the walnut is. And they’d often go 3 months or more between meals anyway, as long as they’d had a large victim for their most recent meal.
These are zoo vets and given where this crocodile was found, it’s probably an American crocodile (crocodylus acutus) which is a seriously endangered species. Even if this one was a more common species that had somehow ended up in the Florida Keys (where only the American crocodile is native), these veterinary surgeons would welcome the experience for when they’re confronted with a traumatic injury to a closely related endangered species. Not a lot of opportunities to practice skull/jaw reconstruction on crocodile/alligator-type beasts.
To: fr_freak
Crocodiles are rare in Florida, Alligators are like weeds...
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posted on
03/21/2009 12:02:27 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: KittyKares
Hopefully he wont go out and eat some poor human.If he does, he'll be doing our gene pool a favor. The sort of humans that tend to stroll along the edge of crocodile-infested waters and let their guard down, are not exactly the smartest representatives of our species.
To: LibWhacker
looks like a Union Steel stud / Shear training apprentice...
God knows we have enough of them here in Las Vegas...
and the union hall is full!!!!!!!!!!of..
south of the rio grande sort
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