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The fierce crocodile is addicted to killing, persecuting nearly 80 lives in 14 years, the villagers have suffered from it, and they have petitioned the government department, and finally the government personnel were forced to capture it under the pressure of public opinion, but they refused to bring it to justice. How can humans and crocodiles coexist?
Murderous giant crocodile
In Uganda, Africa, a scenic village near the water where villagers live a self-sufficient life by water, there is a headache neighbor near the village, who devoured nearly 80 villagers in the 14 years between 1991 and 2005.
Uganda
This neighbor is named Osama, an extremely ferocious Nile crocodile, as the largest reptile in Africa, the Nile crocodile's combat power is definitely the ceiling, so in its domineering days, many humans have suffered from it.
Osama lives on Lake Victoria near the village, because the villagers depend on the lake for their livelihood, so it is impossible to avoid dealing with it, it is 4.9 meters long and weighs 1 ton, this size and murderous nature make the villagers both resentful and fearful of it.
Once, villager Paul and his brother Peter went fishing in the lake, which was originally a very harmonious picture, but just when the brothers were enjoying themselves, Osama suddenly emerged from the lake and directly overturned the boat.
Peter is locked by Osama, he struggles desperately but to no avail, Osama bites his leg tightly, the impact of the pain makes him gradually lose the ability to resist, and Paul can only watch helplessly as his brother is dragged underwater.
A few days later, the villagers found part of Peter's body in the lake, no doubt he had been killed, Peter's tragic end made everyone present terrified, and the survivable lake in front of them was suddenly shrouded in horror, making the villagers avoid it.
They set up warning signs on the shores of the lake and told their children not to go into the water even if the weather was so hot that people were about to evaporate, but this is really unavoidable for the villagers who make a living by fishing.
Nile crocodile
John, an old man in the village, once said that in order to make a living, they had to take risks, so every day when they went out, they would pray at home, hoping to return safely.
But despite this, many villagers lost their lives, and Osama may have been aware of the villagers' defenses against it, so it learned to camouflage when hunting, and each attack was quietly approached, launching another fatal blow while the people were unprepared.
Few of the people who have fallen into its mouth over the years have managed to escape, and only 15 people are counted.
Nile crocodile
Seeing their loved ones die one after another at the mouth of Osama, the villagers could no longer bear it, and they collectively responded to the relevant departments, hoping that they could completely eradicate this scourge.
But the authorities were typically beaten and did not know the pain in their bodies, and they rejected the villagers' petitions, saying that crocodile hunting is their freedom, humans have no right to interfere, and that Nile crocodiles are endangered animals and cannot be killed at will.
After the villagers were rebuffed by the authorities, they had no choice but to return to the village, and the days of fear passed for years, until an accident in 2005 made them determined to eradicate Osama.
Osama's killing was unbearable for the villagers, but the government was treated perfunctorily, how will they save themselves in the end? What will happen to the Nile crocodile named Osama?
Post-capture placement
One afternoon in 2005, when a villager was passing by the lake, he suddenly noticed some blood stains on the surface of the lake that had not yet been dispersed, and he immediately realized that someone must have been killed again.
So, he quickly called the villagers, ready to find out, and at this moment, someone ran to the lake in a panic, claiming that his child was missing, thinking of the blood stains on the lake, everyone shouted that something was wrong.
Nile crocodile
As it turned out, it was the villager's 12-year-old child who was killed, and the villagers salvaged some of the child's body fragments and mutilated clothing fragments a few days later, which also made the child's parents grief-stricken and eager to immediately go into the water and fight with Osama.
The villagers stopped the child's parents from giving away the head in time, and they were equally angry, so they went to the government again and demanded that this man-eating demon be brought to justice.
Perhaps under pressure, the government department agreed to the villagers' request this time, and they sent a professional team to the village to discuss with the villagers how to capture it.
After some discussion, they decided to use the method of waiting for the rabbit, first setting traps in specific places, then using bait to trick Osama in, and finally the moment to close the net.
After the plan was drawn up, the capture team officially set off, hanging a pair of cow lungs on a trap laid in advance, and then a group of people retreated to a short distance to wait and see.
Until a giant beast with a protruding back swam on the surface of the waveless water, Osama did not take action at the first time when swimming to the area below the cow's lung, but shuttled around for potential dangers, and indeed could kill nearly 80 lives on his own.
Finally, after a long wait, Osama was already a little impatient, and the delicious meal in front of him was within reach, and finally it sprang up violently and bit off the huge cow lung, but what it did not expect was that the cow lung was dipped into high-strength anesthetic and huge fish hook, and finally this cunning ferocious beast fell in the combined force of the people.
However, Osama was caught, but how to deal with it became the biggest problem!
In the face of the murderer of their relatives, the villagers naturally hope to kill it quickly, but the government department does not think so, Nile crocodiles are rare animals, they have too many treasures that humans need, if they are killed like this, it is a pity.
So, under the arrangement of the government department, Osama lived in the Ugandan crocodile farm, the intention of the government department is to hope that Osama can mate with the same kind of offspring with more than the same powerful offspring, after all, crocodiles are full of treasure, the offspring bred by Osama, the high-quality crocodile skin produced should make the country a lot of money.
It is understood that this farm raises nearly 5,000 crocodiles, attracting many people who come here to travel, which also makes the purchase rate of crocodile skin products greatly increased. However, it is not difficult to imagine that Osama's ending will be within this wall, like other crocodiles here.
Hard teeth of the Nile crocodile
The ferocious Osama is locked up in the human wall, but the Nile crocodile population is on the verge of endangerment, and the protection of wild animals is urgent, what should we do as humans?
Protection of endangered animals
Although many humans have suffered from the brutality of Osamar, the Nile crocodile population has always been on the brink of endangerment, and humans have been hunting Nile crocodiles as early as the 9th century AD.
After so many years of hunting, the number of Nile crocodiles around the world has been declining, so it has also been listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Crocodile skin products
In fact, in the nature we live in, there are many animals or plants like the Nile crocodile, their numbers are constantly decreasing due to the expansion of human society, and some humans are not aware of the seriousness of this phenomenon.
From an ecological point of view, the extinction of wild animals will make the ecological chain of nature unbalanced, and the imbalance of the ecological chain will eventually affect humans, for example, once the owl that is good at catching voles goes extinct, the number of voles will be uncontrolled, and if there are more voles, human harvest will decline, and then famine will occur.
The people take food as the sky, and without food, human beings whose basic needs cannot be met will become no different from wild beasts, and by that time, it will only be a matter of time before human beings perish.
Owls prey on voles
In addition to ecology, from a sociological point of view, the extinction of wild animals will exacerbate the selfish expansion of human beings, and human beings will feel that they are the masters of the world, and over time, human beings will gradually fall into the stage of self-destruction.
Therefore, protecting wildlife has become our unavoidable responsibility, so how can we protect wildlife? First of all, the most important point is to protect the environment, wild animals have a home to live on, the population will naturally not be unbalanced.
In addition, we must put an end to the wanton killing of wild animals, once we find that there is any killing of wild animals, we must immediately report to the relevant departments, as long as we can all refuse wild meat, then the killing of wild animals will gradually decrease.
We all know that we are not the only humans in this natural world, we are only slightly more advanced than other animals, but this does not mean that we have the power of life and death of other creatures.
Protecting wild animals is to protect ourselves, the cornerstone of our human survival and development, and the basis for protecting our human cultural diversity.
A total of 2.5 billion species of plants and animals have appeared since the birth of life on Earth, but in the last three centuries, nearly half have disappeared, a total of 164 species of birds disappeared from 1600 to 1996, and 43 species of beasts disappeared from 1871 to 1970.
If human beings continue like this, there will be fewer and fewer animals and plants on the earth, and in the end, human beings will inevitably escape the fate of extinction, so for the sake of our common home and our descendants, let us protect the environment, protect wildlife, and protect the rare world on this side of the earth.
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