Vets pull shoe from mouth of huge crocodile to save it from 'long and painful' death
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mirror.co.ukBrave vets put their arms down the mouth of a 10.5ft-long Nile crocodile to recover a shoe it had swallowed. The 341-pound reptile ate the footwear after it fell from a zipliner passing overhead at the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, near Jacksonville, Florida.
The crocodile - named Anuket after an Egyptian goddess of the Nile - was witnessed spitting out the shoe before eating it. Keepers at the park tried in vain to flush out the sneaker but decided to seek medical attention after failing, concerned the show may cause a blockage.
A team at the University of Florida Veterinary Hospitals then began the unusual task of recovering the footwear on February 5.
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