Talk:Crocodile attack

"Since 1990, at least a dozen people have been killed by crocodiles, including University of Washington medical professor Richard Root, M.D., age 68, who had moved to Botswana to alleviate a shortage of physicians, and Russell Harris, a 37-year-old British engineer, who was snorkelling off of Picnic Beach in Australia."

Just wondering what makes these two especially notable? They are listed along with several others, but get an additional mention in the text.

Probably to lenghten the lead. Maybe they got larger coverage too, but I personally wouldn't know. Circeus 21:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I wonder if the whole thing isn't a little biased. Look at this paragraph, in the article crocodile:

The larger species of crocodiles can be very dangerous to humans. The Saltwater and Nile Crocodiles are the most dangerous, killing hundreds of people each year in parts of South-East Asia and Africa.

If it is true that hundreds of people are killed each year, what makes those few listed in this article so notable? SaintCahier 22:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Because they are from developed countries. I suppose if an Egyptian doctor on tour of Yellowstone was mauled and killed by a Grizzly it would make headlines back in Egypt, while the death of a village Egyptian along the southern Nile by a croc might make the local papers. It's notable only in being out of the ordinary.-- Stbalbach 01:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Your willingness to acknowledge your racism so openly makes it all the more chilling.—This unsigned comment was added by 81.155.82.17 (talk • contribs) .

LOL, whatever, anon. Sign in and we'll have a discussion and clear up any misunderstandings you may have. -- Stbalbach 16:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

A Google News Search has at least four attacks in just the last month in the first ten results. And I think Australia has had more than a dozen people killed over the last decade. The statistic cited is pretty strange. Amygdala 06:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. The whole article is flawed. Oh dear Wikipedia.

The notion of attacks on developed countries was not exact. Some of the attacks metioned happened in Third World countries. Also, crocodile attacks will make headlines anywhere those animals are not common, not only on developed countries. SaintCahier 04:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

In Hawaii, more then 20 people die from crocodile attacks each year, in Australia there are many more attacks per year, and in a decade?

Croc attacks are like shark attacks; they are massively out of the ordinary and are newsworthy because of their extreme lack of numbers. Australia gets two fatal croc attacks a year if it's unlucky. So what is going wrong in Hawaii?KhProd1 (talk) 11:22, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm from Malaysia and my comments are related to Malaysia only. it may happen differently in other places. In my country, crocodiles usually avoid places where there's many human activities, like a bustling riverside town or dockyard (with a very few exception). Most attack happen in the remote jungle area and in many cases, the victim was alone. Since there's many deadly perils related to a jungle, we will never know for certain wether the victims was killed by a crocs unless there's other witness. So this people are usually considered missing and presumed dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phadil (talk • contribs) 01:19, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Guinness got it wrong?

According to the 2007 Guinness World Records book, page 165, middle right of page, "Most Fatalities In A Crocodile Attack: On February 19, 1945, a Japanese Army unit was forced to 10 miles (16 km) of mangrove swamps on the Burmese (now Myanmar) island of Ramree. The swamps were home to many saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), which can grow to 15 ft (4.5 m). By the morning, of the 10,000 soldiers that entered the swamp, only 20 had survived."

I have found nothing to confirm the GWR number. I usually only found something about 9,000 soldiers less!

D8a 22:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

That entry in the Guinness book is even dumber than dumb.... How many crocodiles would you need to kill 10.000 or even 2.000 people? Exactly.. Thats just a strange story of war, like the misteryus German cat in WW2 that was rescued from a destroyed german ship, and every ship of the allys it was on sank...

You can make me beliefe that in 1945 10.000 Japanese soldiers died in swamps over a year, but thausands killed by crocodiles in the night is just plain stupid. Crocodiles don kill somebody, and then go kill 30 other people. Or did they face thausands of crocodiles ?--95.88.231.158 (talk) 00:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

The Guinness thing, thats just stupid. A croc will only attack and kill for food, and it would take over 10,000 crocs to kill that many and crocs are very territorial. They would need 100,000 square miles of space, and I don't think they had that.Enc23 (talk) 20:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Picture of man's severed arm deleted

I've deleted the photo of the severed human arm, because it has no informational value. It's sensationalistic, voyeuristic and degrading for the victim of the attack.

--91.114.196.60 (talk) 19:43, 6 August 2013 (UTC)