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Thread #127129 Message #2832519
Posted By: Rowan
07-Feb-10 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Which is worse? Kookabura? Wallaby? Pl
Subject: RE: BS: Which is worse? Kookabura? Wallaby? Pl
Those signs on the riverbank saying not to swim with the crocs......ignore them.
There are lots of places that are 'out of the way' and don't have such signs; I recall a young tourist (a woman from the US) having a swim in the top end of WA and being taken by a saltie. A colleague (Su Solomon) was, at that time, researching taphonomy and specialising on identifying predators by identifying and classifying tooth marks on bones; she was the one who identified the East Kenyan "first family" hominins as a collection of crocodile victims, by comparing them with recovered victims (in the morgue) from our Top End. Su had a cartoon on her door, depicting a pair of crocs post-prandially sunning themselves on a river bank and saying "That was lovely. All soft and pink, with no claws or horns."