Everything about Gustave Crocodile totally explained
Gustave is a massive
Nile crocodile living in
Burundi, estimated to be 6 m (20 ft) in length and weighing around 907 kg (1 ton), he's the largest crocodile ever seen in
Africa. A notorious
man-eater, he's rumored to have claimed as many as 300 victims from the banks of the
Ruzizi River and the northern shores of
Lake Tanganyika. While this number is likely greatly exaggerated, Gustave has attained a near-mythical status and is greatly feared by people in the region.
Gustave was named by Patrice Faye, a
French resident of Burundi and self-taught naturalist who has been pursuing the crocodile since 1998. Faye and a documentary team attempted to capture Gustave in 2002 using an enormous trap, but the crocodile avoided it. The ill-fated attempt was detailed in a somewhat sensationalized documentary titled
Capturing the Killer Croc, which aired on
PBS in May 2004.
Based on his size, Gustave is estimated to be at least 65 years old. He was sighted most recently in February 2008. He is known for the bullet scars that cover his body.
Since he's too big and heavy to catch smaller prey like small mammals and fish, he catches larger, heavier animals like
wildebeest,
humans, and
zebra.
In fiction
Gustave is the basis of the film
Primeval (originally titled
Gustave), which follows a news team sent to
Burundi to capture Gustave.
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