Mobile Crocodile

The Yuen Long crocodile has resurfaced.

No one knows where it has been hiding, but it turned up three kilometres downstream.

John Lever, the Aussie crocodile farmer who came to Hong Kong to catch the reptile but was unsuccessful, said the new location wasn't surprising:

"I suggested ... before I left that if the weather got cold he would probably move downstream where the water is warmer near the sea ..."

His advice before he left ... was to locate the crocodile then put two new traps nearby. But crocodiles lose their appetites if the air and water temperature dips below 24 degrees, and may not eat for one to two months.

While that may be true, there's a likelier cause: the crocodile was behaving like a Hong Konger. Fed up with the hoards of journalists and onlookers along the riverbank, it opted for a quieter spot.

The next thing we know, it'll buy a condo in Shenzhen.

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