Invasion of the crocodiles.

[hutch--]

I jut watched the documentary as per the topic title and it ws interesting stuff. About 30 years ago salt water crocodiles were hunted to near extinction but since they have been protected their numbers have exploded from about 3000 to over 75000 and growing. They have to pull one out of Darwin harbour nearly every day and it is now clearly not a place to go swimming unless you want to be eaten.

What I did find fascinating was their capacity to swim hundreds of miles in open ocean shifting from one river system to another and even hunting turtles on some of the coastal islands directly off the beach. They are surprisingly smart, can pick incoming cyclones and move to safer places, travel reasonably long distances to hunt in different areas depending on the season and food supply.

They have not seen any of the real big ones that used to exist before they were nearly hunted out (over 20 feet long) but there seems to be enough partially grown ones over 10 feet long to make swimming in the Northern Territory a very risky business even well up stream where it used to be safe.

[vanjast]

Crocodile hangbags, shoes, longgggg boots, and jackets will be 'in-fashion' soon  :bg

[dedndave]

they need to put a temporary bounty on them
the state of Arizona does that with coyote from time to time
we'll have a year of heavy rainfall - heavy vegetation, of course
that will be followed by a year of extra coyote food, like jackrabbits and quail
that will be followed by a year of too many coyote - lol

[hutch--]

 :bg

Dave, you would like these things, they are smart predators, fast movers over long distances, will eat just about anything and they are perfectly adapted to the primeaevil swamp environment of their habitat but are equally at home swimming hundreds of miles in open sea to different islands. The only real solution is citizen .303 or the modern equivalent as their population has exploded since they were protected 30 or so years ago.

Most of the big ones were shot out before ww2 but my dad rememered very big ones (25 foot) around Broome in West OZ where they used to hang around the meat works there for the waste. His comment was a 12 guage fired into the open mouth did the job.  :P

[dedndave]

i am hoping you guys clean em up before they decide they like "american food"   :lol

[hutch--]

In crocodile terms, American food means Americans and to be fair, they don't discriminate, they will even eat Americans.  :P

[dedndave]

 :lol
i wasn't refering to mickey D's   :bg

"Hey, Ralph, Let's swim over to the other side of the pond and have some fat, dumb american food"

[MichaelW]

If crocodile meat taste anything like alligator meat you could turn the excess into a new kind of steak on the barbie.

[Bill Cravener]

I once eat rattlesnake long ago and it was good. It tasted something like chicken. I suspect croc and gator tastes similar. I'd try any cooked meat put in front of me, well, except for human that is. :bg

[Farabi]

It still exist on indonesia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGb-FOtP_5g

I dont know, it about 4 meters long.  :dazzled:
If we dont take any counter meassure, they will dominate us for sure, lets think about something what should we do to their race, bag or a shoes? Im serious, theyre danger for us.

[hutch--]

onan,

In Indonesia you have the same species of saltwater crocodile as we have in Australia and YES they are dangerous.

[Farabi]

I once eat rattlesnake long ago and it was good. It tasted something like chicken. I suspect croc and gator tastes similar. I'd try any cooked meat put in front of me, well, except for human that is. :bg

We need a lot of peope like you. The more people like you, the more volunteer will showed up, that is the economic cycle rule, and it is universal.

[Farabi]

This is what would be happen if we keep feed human to the animal the biologist said, a mutation DNA

[dedndave]

he looks like he may have 3 or 4 people in him, now   :lol
a party - and i wasn't invited

[Magnum]

I don't see any eyes on that critter.

What is it ?