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by B1FF_PSUVM 2y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4lrLtMjwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4lrLtMjwA ) is supposed to be pretty accurate
There is a good point in a comment there - at the time crocodiles were not expected:
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@thebackwardpointinggodwit8080
1 year ago
To all those people saying how could someone swim in waters with all those crocs around? Well the bit this account misses is that for many years crocs had been hunted to near extinction in that area and right across the north of Australia. Croc attack had become just a distant possibility in the most remote of locations. Then croc hunting was outlawed in the 70s and croc numbers recovered quickly and their distribution moved southwards to include places like the Daintree over the next decade or so. No-one really expected to see big crocs in the Daintree in the early 80s and what these people did was normal and considered not dangerous at the time. I was in Australia at the time and I remember when that attack happened - it didn’t seem possible. I and most people thought it was much more likely that she simply drowned or disappeared - or maybe some foul-play had occurred and people were covering it up - but we were very skeptical that it was a croc. Now crocs are common right across the north of Australia and sadly attacks keep happening, but Beryl Wruck just had the misfortune to be the first person to find out the hard way that things had changed and what everyone considered safe no longer was.
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- klipt 2y ago> Then croc hunting was outlawed in the 70s and croc numbers recovered quickly and their distribution moved southwards to include places like the Daintree over the next decade or so. So it was a policy choice to increase safety for crocodiles while decreasing safety for humans. Humans are entirely capable of eradicating crocodile attacks, we just choose not to.
- pookha 2y agoFind it interesting when human governance systems develop clear psychopathic behaviors. Wild animals -- like salt-water crocodiles -- are their own version of a system and any system with nothing that kicks back against it will expand to fill the known universe as long as there's positive inputs. The idea that you'd allow a tier-one apex predator -- that can average 17 feet in length -- to explode and grow to these numbers and risk the lives of countless people and wildlife is a form of nihilism. You're saying we as humans are less important than a prehistoric reptile that lives off rotting flesh.
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- rad_gruchalski 2y ago> Humans are entirely capable of eradicating crocodile attacks, we just choose not to. Why would you do that. They have been here millions of years before us. Leave them alone?
- burnished 2y agoProbably unwise to try and completely pacify the entire planet.
- klipt 2y agoPossibly. It's interesting to consider that we've already pacified our major predators in other parts of the world. Think of how many stories warn children about the "big bad wolf" vs how many wolf deaths have you ever heard of? The stories might be a legacy of times past before we killed off most of the wolves near us.