Australian cattleman attacked by crocodile bites back and lives
A saltwater crocodile in Cooktown, Australia. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS
November 10, 2023
An Australian cattle farmer is set to leave the hospital nearly a month after he got bitten by a crocodile — and escaped by biting back. Colin Deveraux, who’s in his mid-60s, was walking toward a river in northern Australia to take care of some fencing when he saw fish clustering in a billabong, a pond left behind when the river changes course or flood waters ebb. Realizing there was something else in the water besides the fish, he abandoned his idea of catching some and turned to leave. “The water had receded, and it was down to this dirty water in the middle,” Deveraux told Australian broadc...