People are constantly suffering from these evil, insidious and very bloodthirsty predators. It is even believed that a crocodile, unlike all other wild animals, cannot be tamed, so much it is a devilish creature. However, individual cases of friendship between a man and a crocodile still took place in history, on our website you can find an amazing story about this, but this, as they say, is a great exception to the rule. Most often the opposite happens …
But the most massive eating of people by crocodiles was marked by the night from 19 to 20 February 1945. This happened during the Second World War.
As you know, on January 14, 1945, a Burmese operation called "Matador" began. In those days, British troops landed on Rampy Island with the aim of capturing the airfield and port, which were in the north of this piece of land. The island was guarded by a Japanese garrison, which gradually began to be pushed back by the British army inland.
Fierce battles were fought here until February 19, after which the Japanese were forced to flee south, seeking to unite with their allies. The British did their best to make their enemy retreat through the ominous mango swamps of Rampi. Mosquitoes, snakes and scorpions, of which there were plenty on the island, will soon seem like nothing to the Japanese.
On the night of February 19-20, they were attacked by an enemy much more terrible even than the British troops - ridge crocodiles, and there were so many of them in the swamps that more than a thousand people died as a result of the night attack of these predators. All these unfortunates were simply eaten by bloodthirsty reptiles. After this terrible feast of alligators, the British captured only three officers and 22 soldiers, and even those were badly bitten by crocodiles.
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Bloodthirsty crocodiles are also cannibalistic
Thanks to modern digital technologies, when every person has a video camera in his pocket (on a smartphone), people began to shoot the most cruel scenes that are played out between crocodiles and their victims. But what is surprising is that these terrible reptiles are not averse to dine with their fellows, especially if a struggle flares up between them - either for leadership, then for a place in the sun.
This is exactly the scene of cannibalism filmed in early April this year, 49-year-old Bill Ian from the Australian city of Alice Springs while fishing on a river near the city of Darwin. Bill and his son Mitchell were so struck by this scene, when a larger and stronger individual alligator completely ate the defeated brother, that, realizing himself, they managed to shoot almost only the final act of this tragedy.