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Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack humans. On Sunday, a 63-year-old tin miner was killed by a crocodile near a river on Bangka island in Sumatra.
Attacks by saltwater crocodiles often occur in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Reviews indicate that at least half of all attacks by the Nile and saltwater crocodiles are fatal [1] (in Australia, however, only about 25% of saltwater crocodile attacks are fatal). [2] The mugger crocodile is also very dangerous to ...
Siamese crocodile. The Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) is a medium-sized freshwater crocodile native to Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The species is critically endangered and already extirpated from many regions. Its other common names include Siamese ...
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India 's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996. [2]
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This is the crocodile in Indonesia with a cash reward on its head - for anyone who can remove a tyre stuck around its neck. The endangered Siamese crocodile was first seen in 2016 with the rubber ...
This was the first verified fatal human attack by a false gharial. [26] However, by 2012, at least two more verified fatal attacks on humans by false gharials had occurred indicating perhaps an increase of human-false gharial conflict possibly correlated to the decline of habitat, habitat quality, and natural prey numbers.
The battle is known for claims that hundreds of Japanese soldiers were killed by crocodiles in the mangrove swamps of Ramree. Some editions of the Guinness Book of World Records have described this as the highest number of fatalities in an animal attack; zoologists and modern military historians have dismissed these claims. [2]