Beautiful lake with a small village where the people live comfortably. It sounds like a beautiful and desirable life, but it may not be great if your neighbor is a big crocodile.
Lake Victoria is full of dangerous factors, and the large crocodile Usama is the most terrifying of them.
Located in Tanzania and Uganda, Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest in the world. This lake is well known to everyone, not only for its large size, but also for a large crocodile that once lived here.
This is a 75-year-old Nile crocodile that has killed and eaten 80 people. The Nile crocodile is no ordinary small crocodile, it is the largest reptile in Africa, with a body length of up to 6 meters and a weight of up to 1 ton, and it is also the second largest reptile in the world.
This large crocodile on Lake Victoria is 16 feet (about 4.88 meters), such a behemoth, whoever touches it is almost impossible to escape.
The British "Daily Star" reported on the 9th that in the village of Luganga in Uganda, villagers live near Lake Victoria. They named the crocodile Osama, inspired by the notorious terrorist Usama bin Laden. Just hearing the name shows how scared the villagers are of it.
In 2005, people used cow lungs to lure the large crocodile Usama and grab it.
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For years, the big crocodile, named Usama, has bothered those who live nearby. Between 1991 and 2005, it was a particularly bloody period when large crocodiles killed one-tenth of the population of Luganga.
Locals have a story that when children fill a lake with buckets of water, large crocodiles will catch them, or swim under the fishing boat and overturn the fishing boat. This sinister, ruthless crocodile has been harassing the lives of the villagers.
A man witnessed the crocodile's horrific attack, but luckily survived, but his brother Pitt was killed by the crocodile.
According to the Sydney Herald Morning Post, Paul and Pete were fishing in the lake together in a boat, Paul was rowing in the back of the boat, and Pete was fishing in the front of the boat, and just when the wind and waves seemed to be calm, the crocodile jumped and caught Pete.
Paul later recalled: "At that time, Usama surfaced vertically from the water, then jumped on the boat with a thud, and (the huge impact) made the back of the boat I was sitting on flooded by the lake. "
Local villagers are watching the large crocodile Usama that was caught ashore.
Paul and Pete shouted for help, at which point Usama bit Pete's leg with his huge jaw and began to pull him, trying to pull him into the water.
Paul said: "Pete kept clutching the side of the boat screaming and he fought with the crocodile for about 5 minutes until I heard the sound of tearing. "
Pete was shouting, "It tore my leg apart." Then he let go of the hand that was holding the side of the boat and fell into the lake. A few days later, Pete's head and arms were spotted in the lake.
The incident made the villagers more frightened than ever, and some even woke up in the middle of the night, praying incessantly that they would not be caught by crocodiles.
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Finally, in 2005, the big crocodile was caught. It was a long process that took 7 days and 7 nights. A group of 50 local men and wildlife officials formed a crocodile-catching group that lured the large crocodile into a trap using huge cow lungs as bait.
After his arrest, the great crocodile Usama was sent to a crocodile farm for breeding.
The big crocodile jumped out of the water to bite the cow's lung, and it entered the trap set by the people. The crocodile-catching team quickly locked the ferocious crocodile with a rope and hoisted it to the back of a pickup truck.
Is this the fate of this crocodile here? What will the villagers who hate it do with it? The reversal came, and local officials told the villagers: "This crocodile cannot be killed." "
Officials gave the crocodile to a crocodile farm in Uganda for crocodile breeding, and they hope the crocodile will produce more offspring, as large as it is. These breeding crocodiles, their skins can be used to make handbags, for fashion brands in Italy and other countries.
In addition, this crocodile farm is also a tourist attraction, and if you are interested, you can come here to see thousands of crocodiles being fattened.
(Wang Hua)