#tire

#tire

Crocodile Freed from Tire After Six YearsA female crocodile in Indonesia managed to get a motorcycle tire stuck around her neck. The reptile was first reported in 2016, and has since been sighted and photographed many times near the city of Palu. She was named buaya kalung ban, which translates to "crocodile with a tire necklace." If the croc grew to a certain size with the tire still attached, she could be strangled. But who wants to approach a crocodile to remove her necklace? To be honest, many people have tried -and failed. Conservation officials even offered a reward. Crocodile wranglers from Australia and the US tried to free the croc. One such attempt was featured on the Discovery show Impossible Croc Rescue.

Elk Freed From Tire Around His Neck After Two YearsPeople had reported seeing a bull elk with a tire around it neck to the Colorado Parks & Wildlife department for at least two years, but wildlife officers could never find the elk after a call. Until last week. Following a call, wildlife officers found the victim among a herd of 40 or so elk. But it took four attempts over a week's time to tranquilize the elk with a dart gun. When the herd moved on, officers Dawson Swanson and Scott Murdoch moved in to remove the tire. The young elk had grown since becoming trapped the tire, so it was a tight fit. The tire was steel-belted, so they couldn't just cut it off. They had to remove the elk's antlers to slip the tire over its head. Swanson and Murdoch estimated that the bull elk dropped roughly 35 pounds between the removal of the tire, his antlers and the debris that was inside the tire.“The tire was full of wet pine needles and dirt,” Murdoch said. “So the pine needles, dirt and other debris basically filled the entire bottom half of the tire. There was probably 10 pounds of debris in the tire.”The elk's neck was in remarkably good shape, considering the weight he'd been carrying. However, if he had grown for another year or two, the tire could have proven fatal. His antlers will grow back next year. Read the entire story, and see more pictures, at Colorado Parks & Wildlife. -via Boing Boing (Image credit: Dan Jaynes) #elk #tire #animalrescue