Anyone hear anything about African Croc's found in Florida?

[Miami101]

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/26/4293318/man-eating-crocodile-fo...

 

Details:

Wildlife biologist Joe Wasilewski has hauled many scaly creatures out of South Florida lakes, canals and marshes over the years.But the snappish four-footer he snared at the Redland Fruit & Spice Park was an unsettling surprise. It was a young crocodile, but not the typically timid native species. This was a Nile croc, infamous for its appetite for humans and savage attacks on wildebeest and other large animals along African rivers and watering holes.The capture late last year appears to have been the first sighting — at least officially — of a Nile croc in the wilds of Florida. It wasn’t the last. In April, a botanist photographed a second Nile of similar size on a Krome Avenue canal bank, also in the Redland community south of Miami. After eluding capture for months, that croc is now in hiding, whereabouts unknown. A report of a third, caught in the same area three years ago, has surfaced since.In a state overrun with exotic invaders, even a few sightings of such an aggressive and dangerous animal have raised concerns with state and federal wildlife managers. In late August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the unusual step of authorizing a state shoot-to-kill request for a reptile technically protected under federal law because it is disappearing in its native range and on international threatened lists.“It was a tough

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/26/4293318/man-eating-crocodile-fo...

[Miami101]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/24/3112045/hunting-a-man-eating-...

 

Another items in the news paper. Same story on the topic.

[Jay]

Yesterday I watched a documentary about the three kayakers on an adventure down a river in Congo.  The guide was plucked from his Kayak and was lost...they have some of the attack on film.  Chilling.  We don't want these in South Florida.

'Devastated' American Kayakers Survive Congo Croc Attack

[Swamp Hunter]

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/americans-survive-crocodile-attack-kil...

[Jay]

Thanks for fixing that link Dale.

[Swamp Hunter]

Thats all we need is another exotic predatory reptile.

 

I seem to remember an alligator pulling down a canoer by the arm years ago and certainly many swimmers have been attacked by gators but these events are rare. There was a recent kayaker that almost lost his dog and has the video to prove it.  You can find it online. A dog on a kayak is a bad bad idea.  I personally have friends that lost their loving pets. The FMB check station deer sniffing beagle was unfortunately lost to a gator. 

 

My friend was called out by the NPS to rescue a kayaker that was surrounded by gators at Mitchells Landing last year because he lives nearby.  She had her dog onboard and the gators surrounded her not allowing her to reach the landing so she called the NPS for a rescue.. She was frantic. Anyone remember the incident?

 

Yes we dont want them here. We like our mild mannered croc.

[Swamp Hunter]

 

Q: What do you call an alligator in a vest?
A: An Investigator

 

Q: What do you call an alligator that makes others fight?
A: An Instigator.

Q: How many arms has an alligator got?
A: Depends how far he has got with eating his dinner!