Pale,

I would have imagined Aboriginal People could legally kill crocs anyway, to use for food.

Any profits from culling should go to them .

Pale. Your not getting paranoid are you?lol and i see your doing a bit of gender fishing as well. As for croc whispering, I AM MAN, BEAR, PIG! but only in the wild:). I leave my gender open for interpretation so a level playing field is assured, but my partner and I work together as a team! I type, and she spells.:)

The problem is with just words on a screen, is that there is no body language or tone to read from, and people can quickly jump to conclusions. In the real world( off screen ) no-one would dare speak to which to the like on another thread that is running, to anyone during a face to face conversation.

Your a good sport pale, and a little light humor is good for us all.

Cause it does get a little heated up around here when emotions run, and don't forget, everyone is right:) People really need to take it easy! the world is NOT going to end, ever! we will have our time on this earth and then something else will take our place.
This is how its always been.

We just give a little food for thought, and at the end of the day, we all switch off our computers and go home.

And this is the way it should be.

All the best

EVO

As a youngster growing up on an island in PNG during the 1960's we were given the most graphic lesson when a brother and sister were taken by crocodile(s) one afternoon on their way home from school.

Very next morning the school principal and the District Commissioner paraded all of us in the school and we went down to the site of the attack - drag marks still evident in the mud and sand only hours after the event. The memory still chills me even 40 yrs later.

Horses for courses, at this time in history crocs were being culled. So like road tolls alluded to in my earlier post on this thread, H - sapiens efforts are only really successful if the 'CDF Factor' is applied in liberal doses.

Most available studies in principle agree with, or are in favour of limited culling - google search Dr Graham Webb. The custodial/traditional owners of the lands involved should benefit from the safari type proposals. The gene pool diversity concerns for the saurians involved are quite minor in the scheme of things.

Safety of humans in the areas - yeah we kill off each other with monotonous regularity via other means... but no one really gets as emotive about vehicular deaths as they do with sharks, crocs, stingers etc.

Let's get real hey?

kartiya jim,

Hi There. Pretty much I guess. There is a movement at the moment among some Aboriginal People since Rudd said sorry to re gain control.

It’s not only for mining rights but everything.
I have a video of the man here somewhere.

When I find it I will see if there’s a link and pop it up for you.

Crocs got a mention in it as well. I am told UK flew out a high profile lawyer to defend the claim that Aboriginal people never gave up their claim to the country….

As usual not a peep of it on the media. Kevin probably worries he shouldn’t of said – sorry.

Anyway I am drifting up stream. So getting back to Crocs-

Albie Manton in Darwin seems to have some first experience.
I agree Sharks and crocs are not the nicest ways to go.

EVO, Evo Evo

Don’t leave us!

You’re a hoot.

Do you know how long it`s taken us to find someone with a SOH on this site.
Anytime your up this way pop in and we will do a spot of fishing ah.
Just don’t tell the libbers:)

I thought you might enjoy this link about the ‘Lucky Country’

http://www.ozshots.com/20020906_Crocodiles/

Come on, – Tell us some more gone fishing stories-

‘ pretty please’

Just came across this interesting article about a crocodile stalking building workers. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=647116&rss=yes.

If I'm disentangling the anthropomorphism of the journalism correctly from the facts, by removing a dominant male by killing it, the territorial balance has been upset and this makes crocodiles more aggressive for a while as they re-establish territorial boundaries.

I'm assuming that crocs don't get emotional about other crocs, so the nascent love story here is just that! Or do we have to revise the meaning of "crocodile tears"?

Pale! Go fishing up there! Bugger that! Too many crocodiles.

Graham. Conservation verses human overpopulation.mmmmmm! It would seem the mob rules on this one. Sustainability of these creatures I will agre with, cause we cant have any more unnecessary deaths dew to stupidity now, can we? Lets look into the future for just a moment. Lets say the human population at the top-end doubles in the next 20years, and it will, where will the crocs go!

You may as well kill them all now and save everyone the problem. Australia Zoo will be the only safe place for them as human beings go around saying this is mine and that is mine and not to mention anything else that gets in our way.

Its funny that no-one talks about human sustainability, isn't it! Without doubt, we are going to eat this planet alive! 20 billion people is enough for this fragile continent and with all the other factors of global change, the next 50years will be a big wake up call for all us. mark my words.

Another rock and a hard place debate.

EVO