Croc Pot Hole
Posted on 09/05/2011 10:19:15 AM PDT by Palter
The 21-foot, 600-kg seawater crocodile caught in Agusan del Sur may very well be the largest one captured but certainly not the first nor will it perhaps be the last one to be captured in the wild.
Project director Ronald Nuer of the Bunawan Municipal Council said it took them 21 nights to snare the behemoth which, to the alarm of those who caught it, twice got out the restraining ropes before it was finally tied down after which it became overly “aggressive" three times.
Nuer added that according to the Palawan Wildlife Conservation Center which helped capture the crocodile, it is a male specimen.
Those who carefully constructed a frame around the reptile to restrain it had kept their eyes on each and every move of the crocodile’s tail and snout.
Residents were relieved with the capture of the reptile but none more than Luciano Auxtero, who believes that it’s the crocodile that ate his sister who had gone missing.
“ Malaki ang paniniwala ko na kinain ng buwaya ang nawawala kong kapatid," said Auxtero.
Large crocodiles have terrorized other communities in Palawan and Agusan.
Just last July, in Rio Tuba in Palawan, snares were also used to capture a 13-foot crocodile believed to have killed fisherman Edwin Lucero. That crocodile injured one personnel of the Palawan Wildlife Rescue Center who was helping out in putting the reptile in a cage.
In March 2009, in a different municipality of Agusan del Sur, a crocodile killed a child on a canoe by biting the child’s head off.
A lake in Barangay Matila in Kabuntalan, Maguindanao, is notoriously infested with ferocious crocodiles.
Yet, the students there brave the waters everyday to cross the lake just to get to school.
According to experts, capturing large crocodiles in the wild is but reasonable when there are reports that these animals attack livestock or humans to discourage other crocodiles from treating peopled areas as their feeding grounds
Me too. ;>)
Croc Pot Hole
:-)
A tossup.
———“ Malaki ang paniniwala ko na kinain ng buwaya ang nawawala kong kapatid,” said Auxtero.”——
Sigi sigi
Salamat po
mabyhay
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