Thousands of Crocodile Release, Search Still Do

                            

JOHANNESBURG, KOMPAS.com- South African Police, Friday (01/25/2013), launched a massive operation to recapture thousands of crocodiles that escaped from a crocodile farm located in Rakwena northern South Africa on Sunday.

This operation should be able to catch as many passes crocodile farms hit by floods earlier.

news agency AFP South Africa quoted police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said, major surgery -big crocodile caught this pass in order to ensure that all the crocodile had been resolved so no need to worry.

"About 1,000 crocodiles have been captured," said Mulaudzi.

local media reports, about half of the 15,000 crocodiles on the farm escaped the rain that caused the flooding farm. This crocodile farm owner escaped after forcing open the farm gate to prevent the brunt of water that destroyed the farm.

When this happens, the crocodiles were going to spread wider and far that re-arrest operations will be more difficult and more dangerous to the outside community.

"So far there is no a buayapun in the city until last night," said Mulaudzi.

crocodile that escaped this one is found near the center of town pembelanjanan in Musina as far as 120 kilometers from the farm .

South African disaster manager dilibatkandalam operations while emphasizing that caution over the possibility of an attack by these crocodiles. This message is especially for the soldiers who were deployed to the location of the possible existence of these crocodiles.

"It's not something we worry about," said a spokesman for the National Disaster Agency, Diektseng Diale. "The hunt for the crocodile is like the movie Crocodile Dundee," he related to the 1986 comedy film of the popular relating to hunting crocodiles in Australia.

Hunting is done mainly at night because crocodiles eyes emit light when the lamp is highlighted. Alligator Farm spokesman Zane Langman told local television ENCA said most crocodile escaped is still small, so easily grown by the team.

"The majority of 2.5 meters or less in length. So we usually jump kepunggungnya and arrested him. But the larger crocodiles need techniques to catch them.