Australia: Croc in Satellite Tracking Study Dies in Custody

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | November 6th, 2008 | Trackback

A crocodile at the center of a controversy over wildlife relocation will be remembered for something else: as an example of the consequences of littering. The crocodile, relocated from remote Cape York in the tropical north to Townsville some 600 miles south, began showing up on tourist beaches and creating a furor over the satellite tracking study that had brought it there. Environmental officials captured it but it died shortly thereafter from unusual causes. Officials found 25 shopping and garbage bags compacted in the croc’s stomach that prevented it from digesting food.

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