Philippines caught the world's largest crocodile

A small village in the Philippines has declared owning a large crocodile in the world when measured specialist Australian animals longer than 6 m.

Mr. Apollo Canoy, Commissioner Bunawan town, said: "We are pleased to announce that we are to own alligators in the world. However, we have not contacted the organization Guinness Book world record. We do not know if they plan to meet with us soon or not. "

Long crocodile to 6.2 m. .. (Photo: AFP)

. Philippines makes people boosted their hopes this is the world's largest crocodile (Photo by MSNBC)

 

 

 Meanwhile, the Guinness website says it has reports of crocodile in Bunawan. The site writes: "Organization Ginness awaiting additional information to validate the record-breaking." In the case of a record to be recognized also have to wait six months to claim this Guinness is the world's largest crocodile in captivity.

Mr. Canoy said the giant crocodile was captured in September last in Agusan marshland Bunawan town, the southern island of Mindanao and is named "Lolong", the name of one of those who catch it.

According to the Australian zoologist Adam Britton, 6.2 m long crocodile rather than 6.4 m was measured as the first. Besides the length, the weight and dimensions of the crocodile has not yet been determined.

Mr. Britton's experts measured the saltwater crocodile Cassius 5.48 m long in 2008. Guinness has recognized organization Cassius is the world's largest crocodiles are kept in captivity.

Crocodile was arrested in September after three weeks of hunting (AP)

People do not find any trace of the victim in the stomach (AP)

 It took three weeks of hunting, hunters catch Lolong new professional, the animals were to be the perpetrator of a series of attacks that killed two people on the island and many livestock and poultry killed . However, we did not find any trace of the victim in the abdomen Lolong.

Today, alligators are kept in captivity. Every five days, it "eats" 17 kg of pork and is a "star" is drawing visitors with an average of 500 passengers / day.