The biggest crocodile

MANILA - A number of villagers who caught a giant crocodile in the city on Saturday Bunawan believed to be the greatest ever captured alive, according to several officials yesterday.

Male crocodile weighing 1.075 kilograms (kg) and 6.4 meters long suspected that devours a farmer who lost last July in the town Bunawan and killed a 12-year-old girl with her head off two years ago.

However, a hunter, Rollie Sumiller examining the crocodile’s stomach, forcing the animals vomiting did not find any indication that it was eating the man, and several heads of crocodiles were reported missing.

"People relieved," said the crocodile was captured Sumiller.

However, he said: "We are not sure if this animal man-eater because there is involved a number of other crocodiles in the area."

Local government in the occupied city's 30,000 people decided not to kill the crocodile.

Urban Bunawan instead want to build a natural park to showcase the crocodile.

A wildlife division chief at the Ministry of Environment Philippines, Josefina de Leon said, may be the largest crocodile ever caught in the world.

"Based on our existing record, the biggest crocodile ever caught was 5:48 meters long," he said.

In the pages of records Guinness World Records, it lists the largest crocodile ever caught was over 5:48 m Cassius.

The male crocodile living in a natural wildlife park in Australia.

Media also reported that a 6.2 meter long male crocodile was killed in Papua New Guines in 1982.

The team is in Bunawan hunting comes from a crocodile farm run government.

At first, feed the chicken, pork and beef are used on 15 August in an effort to catch the crocodile.

However, it is easy to devour crocodile food and rope to bind the meat off.

A metal cable and then used and it causes the alligator jaw attached to cause the animal is caught with the help of about 30 local men in a bay here. - AFP