Crocodile climbs fence at Australian wildlife park, leaves visitors shocked

Visitors to an Australian wildlife park were shocked after witnessing a giant crocodile climb over the chain-link fence of his enclosure. The incident was reported at Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park on July 1.

Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park

The video goes viral

Videos posted on social media showed the reptile, named One Eye, attempting to scale the fence separating him from his feeder. In the video shot by a visitor named Sophia Armstrong, One Eye is seen managing to get his upper body over the fence. However, he had difficulty getting back up completely due to his short legs.

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SCREENSHOT

“No, no,” the woman can be heard saying in the video as she witnesses the terrifying sight. The video also shows the tour guides frantically trying to get the crocodile back into its enclosure. Eventually, the crocodile climbed back down from the fence and retreated into its enclosure.

The video went viral, raising concerns about the safety of visitors.

He was looking for something to eat

However, Owen Douglas, whose grandfather founded the park in the early 2000s, brushed aside safety concerns and said the crocodile was simply trying to feed.

“Often, these crocodiles “They’re extremely aggressive, so for a crocodile to climb over the feeding bay like that is quite common in the park,” he told 9News.

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They are intelligent animals

“They’re really intelligent animals, extremely intelligent – they’re just trying to get their food as quickly as possible, and you can see in the video that when they put their front legs out, they just tilt their head forward, and it’s pretty amazing,” he said.

Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park

One Eye has been rehabilitated

The Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park is home to more than 2,000 crocodiles, including some known troublemakers who were captured and rehabilitated there. Douglas said One Eye, the crocodile seen trying to scale the fence, as his name suggests, has only one eye and was shot during an attempted hunt before being captured and rehabilitated there.

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