The man was shocked when he turned around to see the massive crocodile pressed against the fence in Adelaide River, in the Northern Territory, with its mouth open.
A barbed-wire fence and the fact the crocodile was not hungry because he has just eaten a calf were the reasons the giant animals didn’t attack the defenseless man, NT News reported.
Darwin crocodile expert Grahame Webb said it is rare when saltwater crocodiles to be wandering on land during the dry season in the Top End – which runs from May to October – and said it could have been on the move from a billabong that was drying up.
‘Sometimes at this time of year crocs that have moved out during the wet season into little billabongs or soaks, they suddenly dry up and they try to walk back to the river.’
‘They try to push through things, so I don’t know if he’s killed a calf but he could easily do that. If it’s killed a calf, it’s probably dismembered it, grabbed bits and thrown it around.’
The scary image of the massive reptile below comes after Koorana Crocodile Farm owner John Lever found a plate inside a 4.7-meter crocodile named MJ during an autopsy at his business near Rockhampton, Queensland.
The image went viral of MJ, who died following a fight with another crocodile, hanging by its mouth, showing off the enormity of the animal.
Mr. Lever has been informed the type of plate that was found in crocodile’s body was used in human surgery.
This news has prompted families of those who have gone missing in the area to reach out to Mr. Lever to discover if the plate belonged to their loved one.
Mr. Lever now trying to find out what decade the plate was used and who it belonged to.