8-foot crocodile rescued from creek near Surat village

Acting connected the exigency call, a squad of 10 volunteers reached the spot and carried retired a hunt cognition of four-five hours, but contempt clearing a fewer ponds and spotting traces of the crocodile connected the banks, it took them until different telephone connected Thursday evening to find the animal.

A mates of hours aft they reached the spot for a 2nd time, the volunteers caught the crocodile successful a sportfishing net. They handed it implicit to wood officials of Olpad part for further processing precocious connected Thursday night. On Friday, the crocodile was taken to Vadodara wherever it was released successful a river.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Nature Club unpaid Kaushik Patel said, “The saccharine h2o crocodile is 8.3 feet long. It was female, weighing 105 kg…We person regular calls from radical astir sighting crocodiles. In the existent year, we got 5 calls of crocodile sightings connected antithetic banks of the Tapi stream successful Surat city, but erstwhile our squad reached the spot, reptiles instantly escaped into the river. This is the archetypal specified crocodile caught by america successful the existent year.”