{"id":11154,"date":"2014-04-05T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11154"},"modified":"2014-04-05T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:04:25","slug":"man-eating-18ft-crocodile-caught-after-terrorising-village-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11154","title":{"rendered":"Man-eating 18ft crocodile caught after terrorising village in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cot\"<\/a>A man-eating crocodile suspected of killing at least six people has been captured off the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda.<\/p>\n

The enormous beast, over 18ft long and weighing approximately a tonne, was caught after worried locals demanded wildlife officials hunt it down.<\/p>\n

Its latest victim is believed to be father-of-two Bosco Nyansi, a local fisherman whose tattered clothing was discovered floating on the water.<\/p>\n

No other trace of Mr Nyansi has been found and friends say he was mauled by the beast.<\/div>\n
The animal,\u00a0believed to be over 80-years-old,\u00a0is thought to have seriously injured several other fishermen after developing a taste for human flesh.<\/div>\n

Game wardens trapped it using a large chunk of meat on a hook following a four-day search. They trapped it in a corner before binding it up with rope.<\/p>\n

\n
Handful: The powerful beast measured 18ft long and weighed approximately a tonne. It is thought to be over 80-year-old<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hundreds of people\u00a0from nearby Kakira village gathered to watch as it was bundled onto the back of truck. It will now be transferred to the Murchison Falls national park.<\/p>\n

It is one of the largest crocodiles in captivity weighing only 47kg less than the current record holder\u00a0 – a 21ft saltwater crocodile captured in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Crocodiles are the third-most dangerous predator in Africa after the hippopotamus and the lion. They are thought to be responsible for 275 to 745 attacks on people a year, most of them fatal.<\/p>\n

Crocodiles have been around for more than 200 million years. The average lifespan is about 45 years, but can be much longer.<\/div>\n

It’s not unusual for African crocodiles to kill huge prey such as young hippopotamuses, giraffes, lions and buffalo.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source: Daily Mail, UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man-eating crocodile suspected of killing at least six people has been captured off the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda. The enormous beast, over 18ft long and weighing approximately a tonne, was caught after worried locals demanded wildlife officials hunt it down. Its latest victim is believed to be father-of-two Bosco Nyansi, a local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-11154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}