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Preliminary autopsy results indicated a fatal alligator attack. Her arm and hand were later recovered from an 8.5-foot (2.6 m) alligator. [40] [42] [43] May 10, 2006 Yovy Suarez Jiménez, 28, female: Florida — Her dismembered body was found floating in a canal between Markham County Park and State Road 84 in Sunrise.
15 killed, 2 captured. The Indian Creek Massacre occurred on May 21, 1832 with the attack by a party of Native Americans on a group of United States settlers in LaSalle County, Illinois following a dispute about a settler-constructed dam that prevented fish from reaching a nearby Potawatomi village. The incident coincided with the Black Hawk ...
Chance the Snapper is a four [1] to five [2] foot long American alligator that was found swimming in the Humboldt Park lagoon, in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of July 9, 2019. [3] The animal was named after Chance the Rapper [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in an online poll conducted by the Block Club Chicago news website, [ 7 ] beating other suggested ...
Crocodilian attacks. The order Crocodilia includes the 18 species of true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the two species of alligators, caimans (family Alligatoridae), gharials and false gharials (family Gavialidae).
[20] [21] One study posited the number of attacks by Nile crocodiles per year as 275 to 745, of which 63% are fatal, as opposed to an estimated 30 attacks per year by saltwater crocodiles, of which 50% are fatal. In both species, the mean size of crocodiles involved in nonfatal attacks was about 3 m (10 ft) as opposed to a reported range of 2.5 ...
The presence of crocodiles in the Ramree swamps led other servicemen stationed on the island to believe they were significant in the battle, with one British soldier writing in his diary that "[w]hen the Army landed they drove the Japanese into the swamps and the crocodiles killed hundreds of them. They used to call the crocodiles the allies". [15]
CrocBITE. CrocBITE was an online database of crocodile attacks reported on humans. The non-profit online research tool helped to scientifically analyze crocodile behavior via complex models. Users were encouraged to feed information in a crowdsourcing manner.
Category:Deaths due to animal attacks. This category is for articles that describe mortal attacks on humans by animals. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain ...