Lolong is the latest news today in the world of crocodile and in the whole world. Lolong is now the largest crocodile in captivity. A male Indo-Pacific or Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). He breaks the record of Cassius a male saltwater crocodile that is kept in the crocodile park of Marine Land Melanesia in Australia’s Northern Territory. Cassius is only 17 feet and 11.75 inches (5.48 meters) long and weighs less than 1,000 kg while Lolong is 20 feet and 3 inches long and he weighs 2,370 pounds (1,075 kilograms), making Lolong the largest crocodile ever measured snout-to-tail. This was confirmed by an Australian crocodile expert Dr. Adam Britton who led the National Geographic (NatGeo) team in measuring Lolong last November 9, 2011. They said he will recommend Lolong to be entered into the Guinness World Records books as the world’s biggest crocodile.

Local residents had been very fearful of the crocodile attacks. Lolong was suspected of attacking several people; suspected of eating a farmer who was missing in July in the town of Bunawan and two years ago before Lolong’s captivity, a 12 year old girl whose head was bitten off. On September 3, 2011, Lolong was caught in a Bunawan creek, the area is part of the Agusan Marsh, in Agusan del Sur, a province in the Philippines. He is estimated to be at least 50 years old. It took three weeks to hunt down the giant crocodile and almost 100 people needed to take it out of the water. It broke twice from restraining ropes before it was properly secured and it became extremely aggressive several times. The crocodile was named Lolong after the name of one of its captor, a Palawan-based crocodile hunter, Ernesto “Lolong” Conate, who was part of the team that helped captured the gigantic crocodile but died from a heart attack at the course of their mission.

I personally visited the eco-park in Barangay Consuelo were Lolong can be viewed. Some locals there say  there is still a female that is much larger  that is why there another cage being construct..