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Lolong, the world’s biggest reptile in captivity, is dead.
Rowena Bunawan, media coordinator in the town of Bunawan in Agusan del Sur, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone that Lolong was declared dead inside his pen around 8 p.m. Sunday by Dr. Alexander Collantes, animal doctor at Davao Crocodile park.
“The croc did not eat his usual meal on late last month. Experts will still investigate the cause of death but the animal’s left stomach ballooned,” she said.
Captured in the Agusan Marsh in September, Lolong’s length was initially measured at 6.12 meters (20 feet 4 inches), according to Apollo Canoy, a Bunawan municipal councilor, who was with Briton’s group. Cassius is only 5.48 meters (17 feet, 11.75 inches) long.
Lolong is believed to have eaten a man who went missing in July and to have bitten off the head of a 12-year-old girl in 2009. The crocodile was caught on September 3 last year.
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*** What have we gained from Lolong's captivity other than make it as a money making business? Don't you wish the real crocs in our government were put to captivity instead? I sure wished it was them instead of Lolong, sadly.
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