Scientists and herpetologists who have studied Gustave claim that his uncommon size and weight impede his ability to hunt the species' usual, agile prey such as fish, In the last week before being forced to leave the country, the team placed a live goat in the cage.
Via Wiki Commons/Bernard Gagnon. However, it was known to be true that he did kill humans and was a man-eater, and indeed there were many attacks as Faye was there for his investigation. Even if Gustave hasn’t devoured as many people as some reports suggest, there is little doubt that the big croc is still alive and well. Making it all even more ominous were the accounts of the crocodile killing humans but not eating them, suggesting it was doing it purely out of malice or demented joy.As people started to be increasingly attacked and killed on a regular basis efforts were made to try and hunt down the monster, but it proved to be extremely elusive and able to avoid hunters and traps, which only fueled its legend in the years to come. Since a 100-year-old crocodile "should be nearly toothless", he was estimated to be "probably no older than 60, a
One year, I followed the path he took on one of his forays and 17 people had been eaten between Kanyosha and Minago, and Kabezi and Magara.The scientists believed that Gustave probably targeted humans not for thrills, malice, or some dark, brooding intelligence, but rather because his unwieldy colossally large size made it difficult to catch nimbler prey.
These primordial beasts will attack anything they can, striking fear into the people of the regions they inhabit, and have been a wellspring of myths and legends since time unremembered. Locals claimed that these scars were from soldiers opening fire on it with automatic weapons, after which they said it had eaten most of the bullets and so had only been hit with a few, although this is undoubtedly the mystical lore coming through. Locals even made the eyebrow raising claim that it had brushed off an attack with a rocket propelled grenade, and that it routinely laughed off grenades tossed into the water to scare it off, but again this was all likely highly exaggerated. However, although they were trying to debunk some of the wilder claims they were still left with a damn big crocodile on the prowl, and they knew the only way to study the enigmatic Gustave in more depth would be to catch him.