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Such is the level of ignorance of some of our brethren and countrymen that they would stone an innocent and rare Crocodile to death, in this heartless and terrible fashion, instead of letting it go on it's way or rehabilitating it or even calling in the forest department. In the fashion of killing owls for supposedly snatching out peoples' eyes, while at one level Indians are great conservationists, at another level, we can truly be barbarians, as illustrated in this case... In a village in north Karnataka, a group of men surround a crocodile, which had strayed out of a river and on to a nearby field, and viciously beat it with stones and bricks until its head is a bloody mess. As the men laugh, two of them try to pull the crocodile by its tail, presuming it to be dead. Another person, ste
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