March 25, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
A couple on safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa came upon an unusual sighting along the Sabie River: A crocodile dining on sandals. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Marelize and Antoni shared their video with Latest Sightings, which posted it on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not surprisingly, the commenters had fun with this one. Among the reactions:<\/p>\n \u201cFirst step in making Crocs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s hope it didn\u2019t eat the human attached to the shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLooking at his size, he probably did.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShoes are made from animal hide. It\u2019s that simple. It\u2019s meat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGotta hide the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Also on FTW Outdoors: Woman caught poaching endangered species, hiding them in her pants<\/a><\/p>\n Shoes or sandals are not part of a crocodile\u2019s diet, obviously, but they might consume them if they fall into their habitat and are mistaken for food, as what happened at an alligator farm in Florida in 2020.<\/p>\n A 341-pound Nile crocodile named Anuket at the Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park fed on a size 6 running shoe that had fallen into its enclosure from a zip-line. It was seen eating the shoe and later regurgitating it, only to eat it again.<\/p>\n University of Florida Veterinary Hospital staff monitored the crocodile and noticed it becoming lethargic and having a loss of appetite. So they sedated the creature, and Dr. Garrett Fraess, who had the longest arms, \u201cgloved up and lubed up and went fishing for the shoe,\u201d as reported by The Gainesville Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n But he was unable to reach the shoe, so an operation was performed to cut open Anuket\u2019s stomach to retrieve the shoe. It was reported the crocodile recovered nicely.<\/p>\n As for the crocodile in this video? One can only hope it manages to pass the sandals (or regurgitate them) on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 25, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET A couple on safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111173,61,60,82,119777,119778,122778,119583,119781,111724,127421,114767,111176,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-365752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sstssportsoutdoors","13":"tag-sstsnoutdoors","14":"tag-tagfacebook","15":"tag-tagnews","16":"tag-tagoffbeat","17":"tag-tagoverall-negative","18":"tag-tagreptiles-amphibians","19":"tag-tagwildlife","20":"tag-typestory","21":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}