Photo: Villager with picture of a crocodile

Killer Croc, Gatumba, Burundi, 2004

Photograph by Bobby Model

A villager of Gatumba, Burundi, displays a photograph of an infamous Nile crocodile known as Gustave as workers in the background wade in the Rusizi River. Estimated in 2004 to be 20 feet (6 meters) long and 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), Gustave is reputed to have devoured scores, even hundreds people along the Rusizi and Lake Tanganyika.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Have You Seen This Croc?" March 2005, National Geographic Adventure magazine)

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