Crocs are human flesh eaters!

In Sri Lanka also there is a controversy, with some saying that Crocs do not eat up human beings but only attack and people die during the attack (news item in papers). There is a famous Jana Kavi (peoples' poems in Sinhala) quote: “Matara gange inna Kimbulige petiya, thalla sudui belle gomaraketiya, yana ena parunawatha genasitiya, minie nokai matara kimbuli gepatiya.” Unquote

In the last line it says that the baby Croc of Matara River does not eat people. What does it imply? It implies that some other crocs are eating humans, but not this baby Croc.

The Mugger Crocodile is also very dangerous to humans, killing several people in India every year, and with a fatality rate that is almost as high (slightly less than half of all attacks are fatal). Unlike the predatory attacks by Nile and saltwater crocodiles, victims of mugger crocodiles are often not eaten. Crocodiles are carnivores, which mean they eat only meat. In the wild, they feast on fish, birds, frogs and crustaceans. At the zoo, they eat small animals that have already been killed for them, such as rats, fish or mice. They also eat live locusts. (https://en.wikipedia.org))

I have seen with my own eyes on several occasions a Croc sun bathing in the Diyawanna Branch running parallel to Lake Drive Rajagiriya, close to posh housing locations, 1 km away from Royal Park apartments. I hear that this is a daily show at Boralesgamuwa lake, close to the walking path. To save innocent human lives, it is best that Crocs around Colombo low-lying area mangrove swamps/waters, which are a danger to human lives, be re-located to jungle area waters.