The legendary Gustave, the killer crocodile of Burundi strikes again. The infamous maneater was reportedly spotted by Patrice Faye, a naturalist who has been tracking the croc since 1998. Gustave is 20 feet long and weighs in at 2,000 pounds and is reputed to have devoured hundreds of villagers in the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
I saw the episode from NatGeo that was dedicated to capturing Gustave a couple of years ago. A full expedition, complete with high tech equipment and a purpose built trap, tried for weeks to capture the croc but to no avail. A crocodile this big and this old is just too smart to fall victim to a steel trap. NatGeo's story on Gustave recieved the highest number of hits in the history of it's website. This story just shows how our society needs it's monsters to survive. Let's hope that NatGeo considers another expedition to track and capture Gustave. We need our Monsters whether real or imagined (Bigfoot, Yeti).
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