Crocodile climbs fence of Australian wildlife park, leaves visitors shocked
In the video shot by a visitor named Sophia Armstrong, One Eye is seen being able to get the top part of its body over the fence. However, it struggled to push itself up fully due to its short legs.
Visitors at a wildlife park in Australia were left shocked after they witnessed a giant crocodile scale a wire fence of its enclosure. The incident was reported from the Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park on July 1.
Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park
Video goes viral
Videos posted on social media showed the reptile named One Eye attempting to climb the fence that separated it from its feeder. In the video shot by a visitor named Sophia Armstrong, One Eye is seen being able to get the top part of its body over the fence. However, it struggled to push itself up fully due to its short legs.
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¡°Nah, nope,¡± the woman can be heard saying in the video, as she witnessed the terrifying sight. The video further showed tour guides frantically trying to get the crocodile back into its enclosure. Eventually, the crocodile climbed back down from the fence and retreated into its enclosure.
The video has gone viral, raising concerns about the safety of visitors there.
He was looking to eat
However, Owen Douglas, whose grandfather founded the park in the early 2000s, brushed aside safety concerns and said that the crocodile was just trying to feed.
"Often these crocodiles are extremely aggressive, so for a crocodile to climb over the feeding bay like that is somewhat common at the park," he told 9News.
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They are smart animals
¡°They¡¯re really smart animals, extremely smart ¨C so that¡¯s just him trying to get his food as soon as possible, and you can see in the video when he gets his front legs over, he¡¯s just sort of dangling his head over, and it¡¯s quite incredible,¡± he said.
Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park
One Eye was rehabilitated
Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park is home to over 2,000 crocodiles, including some known troublemakers who have been captured and rehabilitated there. Douglas said that One Eye, the crocodile seen trying to scale the fence, as its name suggests, has only one eye and was shot at during a hunting attempt before it was captured and rehabilitated there.
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