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Gustave is a man-eating male Nile crocodile that roams the Ruzizi river and the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, Africa. Gustave is rumored to have killed as many as 200–300 people, but actual estimates put it up to 60 people. [1] He has obtained a mythical status and is greatly feared by the people in the region. [2] [3]
Hendrik "Hendri" Coetzee (c. 1975 – 7 December 2010) was a South African outdoorsman and author. [4] [5] He was killed after being taken by a crocodile in December 2010.[4] [6]
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent, and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers, swamps and marshlands. [3]
In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman as she bathed in a river on Indonesia's Maluku islands. That same month, a 63-year-old tin miner was killed by a crocodile near a river on Bangka ...
The video footage shows a heat signature trailing the brothers during one of their attempts, which may have been a crocodile. While lions are fearsome predators, a Nile crocodile can easily kill a ...
On April 30, 2018, 25-year-old former tennis player Zanele Ndlovu was canoeing on the Upper Zambezi River in Zimbabwe when she was pulled underwater by a Nile crocodile. Ndlovu lost her right arm in the attack. [45] [46] In July 2018, a man was reportedly killed by a saltwater crocodile in a breeding farm in West Papua, Indonesia. Locals ...
A Thai crocodile farmer who goes by the nickname “Crocodile X” said he killed more than 100 critically endangered reptiles to prevent them from escaping after a typhoon damaged their enclosure.
The largest Cuban Crocodile breeding farm in the world is Zapata Swamp Crocodile Breeding Farm. [38] It was suggested that 145 4-month old crocodiles bred at the farm were killed by feral cats in 2022, following an investigation by two biologists who manage the farm.