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Tuesday August 10, 2004

KK rangers capture croc in monsoon drain near highway

 

 

KOTA KINABALU: The capture of a two-metre-long male crocodile in a monsoon drain

close to the busy Penampang highway has puzzled Wildlife Department rangers.

 

The “malnourished” reptile weighing about 50kg was snared by the rangers late

Saturday.

 

They also set another trap to catch a second crocodile believed to be its

female mate.

 

 

 

“It is quite skinny and may be about eight years old. I can’t say where it came

from or how it reached here. There are many possibilities but I don’t think we

will ever know,” Kota Kinabalu Wildlife Department chief Peter Malim said

yesterday.

 

He said the public spotted the crocodiles several weeks ago and his rangers set

up a three-metre-long cage about two weeks ago.

 

The captured reptile is being kept at the state zoo in Lok Kawi before the

rangers decide on whether to release it back into the wild.

 

Malim said the crocodile was probably a wild reptile and not a pet that was

thrown into the monsoon drain as speculated by some quarters that have been

wondering how it ended up in the drain close to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

 

He said about five to six years ago, there were reports of crocodiles on the

prowl near residences close to the Likas Bird Park.

 

 

 

It might be possible that the reptiles had made their way through a network of

drains over the years to the monsoon drain that was about eight kilometres away,

Malim said.

 

“There is also a possibility that these reptiles were from the Petagas River

where the existence of crocodiles is known,” he said, adding that they hoped to

capture the remaining crocodile soon.

 

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