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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 ...
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.
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.
The weight of Gustave, just by viewing a number of videos, is clearly in excess of 2000 pounds. This is an exceptionally large Nile crocodile which typically are not as heavy as Australian salt water crocodiles which can go to 3000 pounds or more. I believe the estimated weight of Gustave should indicate "in excess of 1 ton" at least.
The Natural regions of Burundi (French: Régions naturelles du Burundi) are geographical subdivisions of Burundi that date to colonial times. They can be broadly grouped into the Plain zone in the west beside Lake Tanganyika and the East African Rift valley, the Congo-Nile ridge, the Central Plateaus and the Depressions to the north, east and ...
The Castle of Grignan (French: Château de Grignan) is a 12th-century castle built on a rocky outcrop overlooking Grignan in Drôme Provençale, transformed into a fortress in the 13th century by the Adhémar family.
Grignan (French pronunciation: [ɡʁiɲɑ̃]; Occitan: Grinhan) is a commune in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
Françoise-Marguerite was born in Paris, France, on 10 October 1646, in the fashionable Place des Vosges. She was the first child of Henri de Sévigné and his young wife, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. Two years later, at the family's Château des Rochers-Sévigné in Brittany, her brother, Charles de Sévigné, was born.