The more Craig understood the ways of the crocodile, the less he wanted to kill them.
George Craig, who has died aged 94, captured alive some of the world’s largest crocodiles. English by descent, he started shooting the beasts for their skins in 1951 on the Adelaide and Daly rivers in Australia’s Northern Territory, and then on the Fly River in Papua New Guinea, where he stayed from 1956 until 1971, on occasion narrowly escaping the clutches of head-hunters.
George Craig feeds a chicken to saltwater crocodile “Cassius” at Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, 2011.One prize exhibit was Gomek, a 17ft 9in estuarine crocodile weighing more than 135 stone that he had captured in 1968, a supposed man-eater named “Louma Whalla Coremana Dikana” . In captivity, Gomek was no longer aggressive but would still wolf down a four-foot crocodile. “No problem, straight down the hatch,” Craig recalled. “Always was a good eater. Liked a lot of mullet.
Cassius had declined sharply after Craig was forced by ill health to leave Green Island. They had developed a bond that was, in the words of one crocodile expert, “absolutely odd”, with Cassius “bolting out of the water” to greet his keeper.
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