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Everybody is a marshland apex predator until they get bit in the eyelid, as they say.
News Australian man survives crocodile attack by biting back
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Probably like crocodile... at a guess?
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That's a good Shoop. I know a good Shoop when I see one.
Rookie numbers compared to the amount of Americans getting chomped down by the "nurse dog" pitbulls each month.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States
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It’s easy to survive any non giant animal attach. Just shove your arm down the throat and pull out its
Guts through its mouth. It’ll stop attacking you….
Or bite its eyelid, apparently….
Guts through its mouth. It’ll stop attacking you….
Or bite its eyelid, apparently….
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Are you recommending sticking your arm in a crocs mouth?
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I think he's giving pointers on what to do the next time it happens. The Florida-man advice
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There's a thread on Florida man getting shot point blank in the head and surviving...Back to you outback guy.
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This thread reminds me of Angry Kid (which is a TV series made by Aardman Animations). I'll attempt to find the youtube video.
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- Those guys been the perfect predators for 300 million years!
And they're also smarter than people used to think.
@Zookeeper Gabe - Did you work with crocs?
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- Like that episode were Donald Duck gets his cap eat by a tiger-shark, and beats the shark!
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- Those are from a old movie, Killer Crocodile. My favorite terror, Aligator, and from a Tarzan show!
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I’ve worked with American alligators, Chinese alligators and west African dwarf crocs.
The Chinese alligator almost bit me in the dick in front of about 30ppl. I was catching it for a medical exam out of its pool and had it by the tail. It whipped up and around and almost got me, to this day I have no idea how no one was recording it on their phone. This was 9-10 years ago.
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- It's been a dream of mine to see one giant croc or a Black Caiman, but not so close like you, my well endoweed friend!
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By Jack Guy, CNN
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An Australian cattle farmer has managed to survive a crocodile attack after biting the huge predator on the eyelid.
Colin Deveraux told national broadcaster ABC that he was working along the Finniss River in the Northern Territory when he stopped to check a billabong, an Australian term for a pond left when a river recedes.
He could see some fish in the middle of the remaining water and decided to try to catch some, before realizing that there was something else in the water and turning to leave.
“I took two steps and the dirty bastard (the crocodile) latched onto my right foot,” Deveraux told ABC.
“It was a big grab… he shook me like a rag doll and he took off back into the water about three meters (10 feet), pulled me,” he said.
Deveraux recounted how he kicked the crocodile and then fell over with his head near the crocodile’s head before trying to bite it.
“I managed to have a bite,” he said, but he couldn’t get a hold on the crocodile’s head.
Deveraux said his teeth slipped and he managed to get a hold on the eyelid, which he described as “pretty thick, like holding onto leather.”
“I jerked back on that and after about a second goes past and he let go,” continued Deveraux, who then rolled over and ran away.
“He chased me I think three or four meters… but then stopped,” he said.
Deveraux recalled how he managed to stop the bleeding with some rope and later traveled to the hospital, where he was told he had damage to his tendons and “two big slashes just about the full length of the foot.”
Doctors then cleared out all the mud and bacteria from the wound.
“They had to spend a lot of time, I think it was nearly 10 days, flushing it,” said Deveraux. “It was hard going for a while.”
They then fixed the wound with staples and a skin graft taken from above the knee, said Deveraux, who added that he has made a good recovery.
“I can bend my toes, I can get feeling in all my toes,” he said.
Deveraux said he “had no choice” but to fight back.
“It all happened, like I said, in about eight seconds,” he said. “If he had have bit me somewhere else it would have been different I think.”
The saltwater crocodile was around 3.2 meters (10.5 feet) long, added Deveraux.
“He was really in his prime,” he said.
Deveraux told ABC that the incident has made him rethink his behavior, and he now believes he shouldn’t have gone out that far into the billabong.
“I’m a changed man, I’m gonna change what I do,” he said.
ABC reports that Deveraux, who is in his mid-60s, is set to be discharged from Royal Darwin Hospital this week after spending a month getting treatment for the bite.
Saltwater crocodiles, known locally as salties, can grow up to six meters (20 feet) long and weigh up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds), according to Australia Zoo.
According to federal government estimates, there are about 100,000 saltwater crocodiles in Australia.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/09/...codile-attack-11-09-2023-intl-scli/index.html
Here's a pic of the guy that bit that croc.....
