Do you ever read a news article and find yourself wondering
about details the author left out? I do, and sometimes it drives me crazy. This
all started with a shoe. None of the articles I found mentioned the type of
shoe, or whether it belonged to a man, a woman or a child. The shoe fell off
the foot of a tourist ziplining over a crocodile habitat in the St. Augustine
Alligator Farm Zoological Park. It was a minor inconvenience for the owner of
the shoe, who probably had to buy alligator-themed flip flops at the gift shop later. But for
Anuket, a 10 1/2-foot reptile with an appetite for footwear, it meant major
surgery. First, a medic in residence tried to remove the shoe by reaching down
the crocodile’s throat. Can you picture that? I’m thinking it wasn’t a small shoe,
and it wasn’t something easily digestible, like leather. I’m betting it was a
Croc.
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