Wildlife
biologist Joe Wasilewski has hauled many scaly creatures out of South Florida
lakes, canals and marshes over the years.
But
the snappish four-footer he snared at the Redland Fruit & Spice Park was an
unsettling surprise. It was a young crocodile, but not the typically timid
native species. This was a Nile croc, infamous for its appetite for humans and
savage attacks on wildebeest and other large animals along African rivers and
watering holes.
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/11/25/4291729/nile-croc-sightings-have-florida.html#storylink=cpy
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