An American studying at Sotheby's Art Institute in London has been killed in a crocodile attack in India.
As I recall, parts of the Sunderbans are considered are the worst area in the world for tiger attacks; and crocodiles still take a LOT of people in Africa, Asia and Australia every year. Not to mention lions and leopards and such.
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I remember reading in Jeff Cooper's Commentaries that on average Crocs take a human being every day in Africa.
Some people's attitude about the dangers of wildlife seems to be the same as the medic in the Bill Mauldin cartoon, standing above a foxhole in the dark smoking a cigarette, "It's ok, Joe, I'm a non-combatant
One of Capstick's books he mentioned the average number in Africa every year, it was pretty sizeable, and he thought it low; a successful croc attack generally leaves no evidence, so if someone disappears near a river...
Darwin raises his ugly head again. Apparently he rents space in that family's house. Last year the dead woman's sister died from a fall while mountain climbing.
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