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Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last August, on one of their regular expeditions, Glenda dropped a lens cap into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry...
...Until 2003, Queensland authorities invested great faith and resources in a relocation program for troublesome crocodiles. Animals spotted near humans were captured, then released in remote areas including the Normanby River system in the 577,000-ha Lakefield National Park. After the Jefferies attack, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service regional director Clive Cook said no crocodiles had been relocated to Lakefield since 1997. But according to a research paper by a visiting American scientist, Chris Kofron, 12 crocodiles were relocated into the park between 1999 and 2001. Cook now says he was only "making a general observation" about crocodile relocation...
...first time people have complained about rogue crocodiles in Lakefield National Park. In the mid-1990s, a radical kind of aversion therapy was tried there in which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will...