Challenge Of The Week
For three long years a thirteen-foot-long crocodile has had a tyre stuck around its neck. As it grows, so does the prospect of it suffocating.
How to get the tyre off has baffled Indonesian officials at Central Sulawesi’s Natural Resources Conservation Office. They have tried to lure the animal over to them, but it has evaded all their attempts to capture it. Even calling in Panji the Adventurer, a famed animal whisperer, proved a failure and has left them rather deflated.
Obviously, the next step is to throw open the challenge to anyone who fancies tracking down and capturing the elusive beast. It can’t be that difficult to spot. There is a reward available to anyone who succeeds, although they are keeping mum as to precisely what it will be.
The croc seems to be as tough as old boots, crocodile skin, naturally, as it has survived the earthquakes and tsunamis that have hit the nearby city of Palu. Time, though, is running out unless it can shed its unusual necklace.
