An Irishman is recovering in the hospital after being attacked by a crocodile in Mexico over the weekend.
Sean Treacy (23) was swimming in Nichupte lagoon near the coastal city of Cancun when the crocodile attacked him.
Treacy, who was in Mexico to attend a wedding, received injuries to his upper arm in the attack and also suffered a punctured lung.
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Paul van Bruggen snapped these amazing pictures of a 8 ft saltie dining out on a shark on the banks of the Daly River, in Australia.
“We went past one section of the river and we heard some splashing,” he said.
“We looked across and saw a shark’s tail coming up out of the water and then a crocodile’s head came up and grabbed it.” Mr van Bruggen said the crocodile knew exactly what it was doing, dragging the shark on to unfamiliar dry land before finishing off its prey.
“How smart is the crocodile? It if was you or me it would be dragging you in to drown you, but it takes the shark up on dry land,” he said.
The fisherman, who was on the Daly River last Friday for the Barra Classic, said the crocodile definitely wanted shark for dinner.
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Around 10:30 p.m. Monday, Sandra Frosti heard an intruder bumping around in her kitchen.
Turns out, the noise was made by an 8-foot, 8-inch alligator that had crawled into the 69-year-old’s kitchen in Eastlake Woodlands.
The female alligator apparently pushed through a screened panel on the back porch, shouldered its way past a potted ficus tree, then got inside the house through an open rear sliding glass door. Once inside, it crawled through the living room, down the hall and into the kitchen.
When Frosti looked into the kitchen, she saw the beast’s head. She called 911 and left the house. Click here for audio of the 911 call.
A trapper removed the gator about 1:30 a.m.
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A woman taking a swim at Trinity Beach in Australia yesterday thought she was sharing the water with a drifting log, but when she swam closer to it, she noticed the log had eyes!
Turns out the “log” was actually a 9 foot saltwater croc, and she was only about 6 feet away from it! Luckily the croc wasn’t hungry, and she was able to swim back to shore without becoming Easter brunch.
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27-year-old Novon Mashiah nearly became lunchmeat when he leaned over the side of his boat and teased a croc for a photo op. The 13 ft croc leapt out of the water and went straight for Novon.
I think Novon learned his lesson.
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A BBC crew managed to film over 40 crocs feasting on fish migrating up the Mary River in Australia.
Saltwater crocodiles are usually highly territorial, but these guys showed some team spirit while they picked the mullets off one by one.
The footage was recorded for BBC One’s Life in Cold Blood which will air on BBC One on Monday, 3 March at 2100 GMT.
Watch the video here.
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Horny crocs are causing so much havoc in Papua New Guinea that authorities have asked licensed firearm holders to form a hunting party to reduce the crocodile population.
Apparently, crocodiles become quite agitated when humans venture into their breeding grounds during mating season. The amorous crocs killed a man last week, and earlier this month a kid from nearby Kali Island was attacked by crocodiles while diving with friends.
If the water’s a rockin’… don’t come a knockin’.
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A man was accidentally shot by a rescuer who was trying to free him from the jaws of a crocodile in northern Australia.
The victim, in his late 20s, was attacked by the croc while collecting crocodile eggs at a remote reptile farm. A coworker trying to save him fired two shots at the saltwater crocodile. One hit the croc, the other hit the victim. Bummer.
But the croc let go. The victim was flown to hospital by helicopter for emergency surgery for bite and bullet wounds.
He is currently in a stable condition.
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Joy Moore went into a hysterical frenzy yesterday morning when she opened her toilet bowl and saw a black lizard-like creature, trying to climb out.
She found out later that it was “most likely” a baby caiman, a South American relative of the alligator, that might have made its way into the sewer system during yesterday’s heavy rains and floods and ended up in her toilet bowl.
A game warden came to fish out the creature but it turned around and crawled back into the the depths of the toilet bowl.
Moore is now too afraid to use her only working toilet.
Guess she’s gonna have to hold it for a while…
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Stewart Parker has built a loving bond with Nelson, a nearly 10 foot, 19-year old alligator.
The pair grew up together on a wildlife park owned by Parker’s father, and have been best friends since childhood.
Most people would be a little wary of getting into a pool with an unpredictable carnivore with sharp teeth. But Parker insists that Nelson is really just a big softy, despite it appearing to the casual observer that he’s actually trying to rip his arm off.
‘He’s not really trying to get me, he’s just asking for food I guess. An alligator’s way of asking for food,’ Parker told Australia’s Channel 10, as he hand fed Nelson in the pool.
Parker feeds Nelson a diet of mice, chicken and rabbits.
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