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You may recall that several days ago this blog was relieved to note that a large crocodile had been removed from a lake at the University of Miami. But now we find that it was apparently part of some kind of crocodile fraternity.
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Pesky Critters Reptile Wranglers is a hilarious title, eh?
Crikey!
(and first)
Posted by: MOTW | December 15, 2004 at 05:35 AM
"The dominant males send other males packing," he said. "Who's going to chase the ladies off?"
I'm confused: since when is it the goal of a guy to chase a lady off?
Posted by: MOTW | December 15, 2004 at 05:35 AM
"Hardwick [..] thought he was hallucinating . . ."
Woah, same thing just happened to me, dude!
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | December 15, 2004 at 05:45 AM
several days ago this blog was relieved
Well, really! Everybody knows that relief is only temporary, and eventually you have to go again!
Posted by: Marvin | Paranoid Android | December 15, 2004 at 06:07 AM
MOTW- I think they're saying that the reason the refugee crocs. are males are that no one is going to chase off the females. The article also answered a question I had left over from the earlier one. When I was at UM (shortly after Pangaea (not a rock band,but wbagnfarb) broke up), locals and children of students would fish in Lake Osceola for food. I think Donna and his pals have taken care of that.
Also it sounds like Donna and friends may be croconerds.
Posted by: insomniac | December 15, 2004 at 06:20 AM
''I thought I spied a log floating down the lake's middle....
I spy with my little eye, a log....no, wait...it's an alligator....no, wait.....let me get a closer look at the snout.
oops
*gulp*
Posted by: slyeyes | December 15, 2004 at 06:26 AM
slyeyes - that made me think of the candybar in the pool scene from Caddyshack.
Posted by: MOTW | December 15, 2004 at 06:54 AM
"Hardwick doesn't think the croc is a threat to humans because he tempted it with bread, which the croc ignored. That wouldn't have happened if people had been feeding it."
Does that mean only humans who taste like bread are at risk?
Maybe people have been feeding it something else besides bread.
Maybe the croc ignored the offered bread and ate the people.
Don't relax until these and other questions are answered.
Posted by: BetterThanNothing | December 15, 2004 at 07:24 AM
I fail to see any humour in that, BetterThanNothing.
*Honey! Get the kids, it's time to leave Miami.*
Posted by: Pillsbury Dough Boy | December 15, 2004 at 07:30 AM
Crocodile fraternity scavenger hunt list:
1. Football Jersey
2. Pair, woman's underwear
(extra points for these if owners are still attached)
3. pocket 'protectors'
4. above all, female crocodiles!
Posted by: insomniac | December 15, 2004 at 07:42 AM
Let's a sing a song right now about a croc name of Donna
The wrangler can't quite catch her, although he seems to wanna
Thought he had her once, but it wasn't she
So she still floats around the pond, at the U of Miami...
Posted by: jamester | December 15, 2004 at 08:25 AM
She's a Junior now...
Majoring in Animal Husbandry...
Posted by: jamester | December 15, 2004 at 08:27 AM
Frat house of crocodiles = true "Animal House"?
Posted by: rhealist | December 15, 2004 at 08:38 AM
Crikey!
Posted by: Mike Weasel | December 15, 2004 at 08:50 AM
The crocs have ''taken down'' most of the campus Muscovy duck population
Damn Crocs!!! Those ducks were my only friends when I was at UM. And if you have never seen a Muscovy duck well they are about the ugliest ducks in the world. I always thought they were mutated from the water in lake Osceola, but maybe it was from being chased by crocks. I spoke with a felow Alum last night and he has both Crocks on video tape from several weeks ago. Seems the professionals are slacking if they didn't know there were two beasts in the lake.
Posted by: Mad Scientist | December 15, 2004 at 08:55 AM
Mad, please don't be upset but I have to tell you that it's not just the crocs--I ate a Muscovy duck last week myself. A friend of mine ordered it from some gourmet food place and had it shipped up here at great expense. Cooked it up with a cherry sauce. I didn't really like it very much, I promise.
Posted by: sandy beach | December 15, 2004 at 09:17 AM
*at Quackmasters HQ*
Fed: This aggression will not stand, man!
Walter: They peed on your rug dude! They peed on your f#$&ing rug! Also, they ate your family and MadS called them ugly.
Fed: Et tu, Mad? Doth ye forsake me? Am I forsook? Has my for been sooken?
Muscovy: *preening* I don't know what you're talking about. I'm dead sexy.
Sandy: You're also dead tasty. Or tasty dead, depending....
Fed: Sandy, I have alerted the authorities. I have connections. They don't call me Federal Duck for nothing!
Mad: ....Yeah, they do.
Fed: Oh, right. I still feel fully forsooken. I'm going to UM right now and give that croc a piece of my....
Donna: Leg? Wing? Thigh?
Fed: *turns around slowly*
Fed: AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Posted by: Federal Duck | December 15, 2004 at 11:17 AM
I think I saw a recipe on the Food Network for Fed Duck a l'orange... yum!
Posted by: sandy beach | December 15, 2004 at 12:56 PM
Fed: LOL on The Dude (not Mr. Lebowski)
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 15, 2004 at 03:27 PM
" ... as humanely as possible ..."
Mebbe they can get some help from those sheepshooters ... er, Sharpshooters ... in England?
Posted by: Uncle Omar | December 15, 2004 at 10:08 PM
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