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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Large man-eating Nile crocodile in Burundi Gustave A photograph of Gustave for National Geographic, taken by Martin Best Species Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile) Sex Male Hatched c. 1955 (age 69–70) Known for Allegedly killing up to 300 people Residence Ruzizi River and Lake ...
Gustave, estimated to be about 6 metres (20 ft) long and to weigh about 900 kilograms (2,000 lb), is said to have killed and eaten many people. [16] In the film documenting Gustave ("Capturing the Killer Croc"), the narrator states that "In the 1950s, buffalo , elephants and common warthogs inhabited the plain; but they were progressively ...
Primeval is a 2007 American action-adventure horror film directed by Michael Katleman and starring Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, and Brooke Langton.Inspired partially by the true story of Gustave, a 20 ft (6.1 m), 2,000 pounds (910 kg; 0.91 t) giant, man-eating Nile Crocodile in Burundi, [1] the film centers on a team of American journalists who travel to Burundi to film and capture him.
Rusizi National Park is a national park in Burundi, next to the Rusizi River. [3] It is 15 km north of the city of Bujumbura and home to hippopotamuses and sitatungas. [4] Gustave, a Nile crocodile, is rumored to have killed 300 people here.
Numerous capture attempts have been made, including using a massive bear trap in 2002; however, Gustave has evaded capture. Gustave is the basis of the film Primeval (originally titled "Gustave"), which follows a news team sent to Burundi to capture Gustave; while doing so they become a target of a warlord in the midst of an African civil war.
Jean II Croÿ as Knight in the Order off the Golden Fleece, 1473 Arms of the line of Croÿ-Solre Chimay Castle in Belgium Croÿ Castle in the Netherlands The only line of the House of Croÿ existing today, that of Croÿ-Solre, descends from Antoine le Grand's younger brother, Jean II de Croÿ (1395–1473), who governed Hainaut and Namur in the ...
An army of several thousand men led by Guy II de Nesle and his deputy Arnoul d'Audrehem arrived before the town of Saint-Jean-d'Angély in February 1351 and laid siege to the town. The English garrison of around six hundred men was under pressure due to winter stores almost being exhausted. [ 1 ]
Guiot de Provins (d. after 1208) Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth century) Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238) Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253) Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317) Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285) Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285) Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel ...