Giant Crocodile Captured alive in Philippines

Photo Credits to Komonews

The giant salt water male crocodile believed as one of the largest in the world was captured  in the philippines from along a creek of Bunawan township Agusan Del Sur last Sunday Morning. It has 6.4 meter long and  1075 kilograms.

 More than three weeks until they captured the crocodile by the residents and the farm staff. 100 people help to pull the crocodile to the land, both Villagers and Hunters planed for the ecotourism park in Southern Town.

Elorde said the crocodile killed a water buffalo in an attack witnessed by villagers last month and was also supected of having attacked a fisherman who went missing in July.

We were nervous but it’s our duty to deal with a threat to the villagers”, Elorde told the Associated Press by telephone. “When I finally stood before it, I couldn’t believe my eyes”.

“It will be the biggest star of the park”, Elorde Cox Elorde said. Adding that villagers were happy that they would be able to turn the dangerous crocodile, from a threat into an asset.

The crocodile are already placed in a fenced cage in a place of town planning to build the ecotourism park for species found in a vast marshland Agusan.

related info: http://llamasjournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/biggest-killer-crocodile-caught-alive.html