Posted on 03/20/2009 10:36:20 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The four-hour operation took place at Miami’s Metrozoo.
The giant male predator, dubbed Robo Croc after the operation left it with a significant amount of metal dotted around its face, was close to death after having its head crushed by a car in the Florida Keys last year.
‘Robo Croc’ the crocodile has reconstructive surgery after car accident
Unable to move its jaw, the distressed animal had not eaten for three months.
Instead of wasting money on this, why not find a better use for this Croc!
Boots!
How did RC survive with his HEAD CRUSHED BY A CAR?!
That’s a miracle in itself—I wonder if the vets requested bailout money to do this surgery? Or was it included among those 9000 earmarks in the omnibus?
Or just kindhearted animal doctors donating their time and resources to save a poor suffering animal that others might have just put down right after the accident?
Oh, I can’t believe you went there!
[bop upside the head w/ the nerfbat]
No mammal I know of could've done it. Reptiles can go a looooong time without eating.
Poor fella.
Gumbo!
;0)
I thought lawyers have to be regularly fed ?
Looks more like Borg o Croc
Meanwhile, insurance companies won’t pay for heart surgery for those they deem not “economically viable”.
I say skin the bastage, sell the hide, gut n’ strip the meat and send it to 3rd world Countries for those poor, starving future terrorists.
The driver should be cited for failure finish the job.
a waste of a great pair of boots
What a croc!
Hopefully he won’t go out and eat some poor human.
They couldn’t have just put the thing out of its misery? What a ridiculous waste of time and money.
It probably didn’t have any brain damage at all. These beasts have a brain about the size of a walnut inside that huge skull. Seems like it was mainly the jaw/snout end that got damaged anyway, and not the part where the walnut is. And they’d often go 3 months or more between meals anyway, as long as they’d had a large victim for their most recent meal.
These are zoo vets and given where this crocodile was found, it’s probably an American crocodile (crocodylus acutus) which is a seriously endangered species. Even if this one was a more common species that had somehow ended up in the Florida Keys (where only the American crocodile is native), these veterinary surgeons would welcome the experience for when they’re confronted with a traumatic injury to a closely related endangered species. Not a lot of opportunities to practice skull/jaw reconstruction on crocodile/alligator-type beasts.
Crocodiles are rare in Florida, Alligators are like weeds...
If he does, he'll be doing our gene pool a favor. The sort of humans that tend to stroll along the edge of crocodile-infested waters and let their guard down, are not exactly the smartest representatives of our species.
God knows we have enough of them here in Las Vegas...
and the union hall is full!!!!!!!!!!of..
south of the rio grande sort
Poor guy.
Bet his wife cringes when he says, “Don’t worry honey, I can fix that”
Work like that would have gotten a F in my 7th grade metal shop class.
Like this guy -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25363093/
Exactly. 18 years old, grew up around alligators, and blames “gator overpopulation” for the fact that he had a few beers and jumped in a Florida canal for a swim in the middle of the night when it’s too dark to see alligators a foot away from you.
Way back when Fort Myers was a small town and my parents lived there. Occasionally little dogs would disappear - people had respect for gators.
What happened?
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