Summary
It's not often you see a man leap onto the back of a crocodile and wrestle it, Tarzan style, into submission. But Steve Leonard -- vet, adventurer and self-confessed adrenaline junkie -- is no ordinary vet. His tussle with a croc twice his size makes for chilling television.
Incredibly, Steve smiles at the memory now. 'Seeing those teeth flashing under my nose was a bit alarming. But then I remembered the vets' rule that the closer you are, the less likely you are to get hurt. I hung onto the croc's neck in a tight hug, because if I'd held it at hand's length, it could have had my arm off.' The story of how Steve, 38, came to be grappling with a crocodile is revealed in his extraordinary new series Animal Kingdom, which follows the fortunes of the 175,000-acre Erindi Game Park in Namibia. Steve -- whose TV career began when he was chosen to be filmed for the BBC documentary Vet School in 1996 -- spent a month living among the animals and staff at the reserve. But the TV cameras nearly filmed his own epitaph when things went very wrong with the crocodiles.See the full content of this document
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Tie That Croc Up! (And Make It Snappy...Region]
Steve explains, 'A drought had left five wild crocodiles stranded in a temporary pool. They had to be relocated to a large watering hole across t...
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