Crocodile grabbed elephant | How the elephant got his trunk

How the elephant got his trunk......
This is the shocking moment a crocodile grabbed the trunk of a baby elephant, hoping to get lunch. The scene was captured by amateur photographer Johan Opperman while taking pictures of a family of African elephants grazing by a water hole in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Hearing the calf's distress calls, the herd of elephants immediately came to its rescue, scaring the croc off

Crocodile Man | Crocodile hunter | Large crocodile attacks

This guy from Costa Rica entertains the tourists swimming and fooling around with a large crocodile.
It took years before he could do it without a fear of being eaten.

Amazing picture | A nurse who living with crocodiles

Croc Lady's family snaps: The amazing pictures of a nurse who lives with three pet crocodiles ... and her 16-year-old son

It's not unusual for pet-owners to wake up with their animal at the end of the bed.

It happens to 16-year-old Andrew Lowing quite often because his mother Vicki lets her three prized pets have the run of their house.

The only difference is that Johnie, Fovian and Jilfia are crocodiles.
Snappy families: Vicki Lowing cradles one of her her pets on the sofa at home

Time to wake up: Johnie - the 14-year-old freshwater female - crawls across Andrew's bed

But Vicki - nicknamed Croc Lady in Melbourne - isn't worried that Andrew might become breakfast in bed for the giant reptiles because they have lived together so long she believes the beasts are now fully domesticated.

The 53-year-old nurse has kept crocodiles for more than 30 years and even claims she can communicate telepathically with 14-year-old Johnie, a 1.5 metre (5ft) freshwater female who weighs 12kg.

Cat scan: The suspicious family feline gives its larger housemate the once over

Nice crocs: Vicki admits to getting funny looks while walking he pets

'I'm convinced crocs are psychic,' said Vicki, stating a belief that is often put forward in Australia.

'They don't look like they do much but there's a lot going on behind those eyes.

'Johnie is definitely psychic. The way she looks at me sometimes, I know she's trying to tell me things.

'She has definitely communicated with me telepathically. It usually happens when she feels a bit crook and she wants me to know she needs some extra TLC.

'I get a shiver like I've seen a ghost and I know she's trying to get through to me.

'I've had Johnie the longest and she's very domesticated. She and Andrew used to compete as youngsters for attention.

'If Johnie ever thought he was getting too much attention from she'd pinch his toys and hide them.

'When I tell her off she goes into a corner and sulks. She can be a real madam.'

Competing for attention with her son and her oldest pet are cranky saltwater creature Jilfia and her little snapper Fovian.

Three-year-old Jilifia is 2.4 metres (8ft) long and weighs 30kg, meaning it is already the size of a ten year old.

Vicki admits to keeping her distance from Jilfia because the saltwater snapper has a nastier temper than the others.

Vicki doesn't actually know if Jilfia is a boy or a girl because crocodiles crocs don't have external sex organs and their sex can't usually be determined until they have an examination at the age of five.

Lounge lizard: Each of the two oldest creatures have their own water tanks and sunlamps

The baby of the trio is freshwater Fovian, who at 45cm long and just 4kg in weight is so small he - or she - lives in the bath.

Johnie and Jilfia have their own separate ponds because, being territorial creatures, they are liable to take chunks out of each other, which means when one is in the bedroom, another is in the lounge and the other is in the bathroom.

Each have their own heaters and sunlamps to maintain their body heat at a constant 25 to 30 degrees C, which is essential to keep them healthy and active, but they are also allowed to wander freely around Vicki's bungalow.

Pets at the vets: Vicki's crocodiles get all the health care they need because Johnie once bite her while ill

Explaining her fascination with the creatures, Vicki said: 'I watched a movie called An Alligator Named Daisy back in the 1960s and from then on I was hooked.

'Mum got me a snake at four and I got my first croc at 22.

'People who know me say I'm the Croc Lady. I don't mind.

A night on the rep-tiles: One of the crocs relaxes on the floor at home

'I look after them properly and they're well cared for. They get the best chicken meat to eat and all the health care they need.

'My girl friends were shocked at first but they've gradually gotten used to them. Apart from when they take over the bathroom. There have been a few screams when people go to the loo.

'I don't think I'll run out of space for them here at home and if I do I'll move into a bigger place.

Are we there yet? The creatures are as welcome in the family car as they are at home

'I'm going to have crocs 'til the day I die, for sure.'

Amazingly, despite Johnie nipping her a decade ago while ill, there have been no injuries from the notorious predators.

Vicki admits neighbours keep their distance when she takes her pets for walks but on the plus side she has never had problems with burglars.

Perhaps the biggest problem it presents for the Lowing family is that it tends to scare off Andrew's girlfriends.

'The crocs don't really bother Andrew but they certainly bother his friends and girlfriends,' said Vicki.

'The latest girlfriend did a runner as soon as she saw Johnie, which was a bit unfortunate.'

Crocodile costume made by artist hisako matsumoto

Japanese artist Hisako Matsumoto created a crocodile costume, complete with helmet and boots, as her graduation piece.
Before going into PETA mode, you should know the costume is completely ceramic, with not a single piece of crocodile leather on it. But it does look like a genuine crocodile costume, and that’s actually the reason I decided to post photos of it on OC.
You’ll also find a photo of the artist, at the bottom. You have to admit, she’s pretty cute.

4 year old girl lives in cage with alligators from birth

The parents of little girl Margarita Tarantina are hereditary animal trainers. They put their daughter into a cage with alligators. The girl’s parents received two alligators - Misha and Masha - shortly before Rita was born. So they were raised together and made friends. Now they cannot stand being without one another. During four years of living together, the crocodiles never bit and did not even scar the little girl.

“Alligators are brutal predators, but they have reason. The reptiles understand that Margarita is just a child and they must not hurt her,” the head of the unusual family, Sergey Tarantin says.

“They like her, and she takes advantage of it. Rita likes Misha in particular. She can play with his paw or lie on his back, while she-crocodile Masha is more capricious,” the father said.

Strange crocodile surgery on the mandible

That the world's first surgery took place on Feb. 18, 2008 at the alligator farm in southern France.
The crocodile was shot in the marriage fight. Veterinarians Landzhev in Beatrice(Beatrice Langevin) fell almost chetyrehmetrovy copy. As oneof the surgical instruments used by Beatrice Drill.




strange crocodile surgery on the mandible

Python snake returned with two head

Two Headed Carpet Python snake is introduced
A two-headed Carpet Python slithers on a rock as it is introduced to the public at the World Aquarium in St. Louis on October 11, 2007. The snake, born in Kansas City in August, originates in Australia and New Zealand can live up to 25 years and will grow to be 12 feet long.



RARE SNAKE RETURNED
A two-headed, albino black rat snake is back in its home on August 24, after police arrested two suspects for stealing the snake from the World Aquarium at the City Museum in St. Louis on August 23, 2004. Curators from the aquarium noticed the snake missing and called police who later arrested workers from the City Museum, who tried to sell the reptile in Illinois. The World Aquarium says the snake which is extreemly rare is worth about $100 thousand.











WE THE TWO-HEADED SNAKE IS FOR SALE
The World Aquarium is looking for a new home for We, the six year-old, two-headed albino black rat snake in St. Louis on January 5, 2006. The World Aquarium is selling the snake on line, with the bidding beginning at $150 thousand. The snake is expected to live for another 10-15 years and the Aquarium would like to use the money for funding educational programs.



Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin
LVP2002030511 - LAS VEGAS, Mar. 6, 2002, (UPI) -- Terri Irwin, wife of the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, wrestles a 16 foot Anaconda snake at an MGM luncheon at ShoWest 2002. The pair where in Las Vegas announcing their new movie "The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course"



"SNAKES ON A PLANE" PREMIERE
Cast member Samuel L. Jackson handles Kitty Jr., a Burmese python, at the premiere of "Snakes on a Plane" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California on August 17, 2006. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 18.

big crocodile

This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe !
(For those of you who are not local, Lake Conroe is in Conroe , Texas )
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!




This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine , Texas near a house. How would you like to meet this fella in the dark? Never let it be said that we don't grow them big in Texas

Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate...

Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.

Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations. "I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.

Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past the 23'1" alligator that he shot and killed in the Rogers back yard.