"After 3-week hunt, villagers haul 20-foot crocodile from stream in Philippines" September 07, 2011|Associated Press
MANILA - Its mighty snout wrapped tightly with ropes, a one-ton, 20-foot saltwater crocodile was captured and put on display in a town in the southern Philippines, one of the biggest such reptiles to be caught in recent years.
“Lolong,’’ as it has been nicknamed, is about to become the star attraction of an ecotourism park - unless it is upstaged by an even larger reptile that may be still be on the loose.
Residents of Bunawan township celebrated when they captured the croc, with about 100 people pulling the feared beast from a creek by rope, then hoisting it by crane onto a truck. While the beast was safely tied up, they examined its teeth, claws, and stubby legs.
Their party may have been premature. After the 20-foot reptile was caught over the weekend, authorities said yesterday that a bigger crocodile may still be lurking in the remote region in Agusan del Sur Province....
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