The plate is thought to have been in the reptile's stomach for up to 40 years.
WIN News Central Queensland. Before that, the reptile lived in the wild.fell ill after fighting with another crocodile, and stopped eating before he died. Around seven months ago, they discovered his lifeless body at the farm.'s owners don't know much about the plate as it isn't numbered, but they think it was made in Eastern Europe, WIN News reported. It is thought to be an old-style device, ABC reported, but the keepers aren't sure if it was used for an animal or a human.
A stock image of a Saltwater crocodile in Australia. The owners of Koorana Crocodile Farm are stumped after a surgical plate was found in a crocodile's stomach."Obviously whatever bone he'd taken in that had had the operation performed on it, had been eaten away by the crocodile's stomach juices and just left the stainless steel plate with the six screws in it," John Lever told ABC.
"I've never seen anything like this before and I'd just love to find out where it came from," he told WIN News.'s size and estimated age, John Lever told WIN News he thinks the plate could have been sat in theCrocodile Farm explained it's not unusual to find"random things" in the stomachs of crocodiles. During their lives, many reptiles like crocodiles as well as some birds and mammals like seals and whales swallow rocks.
"It is quite surprising but at the same time you're sort of half expecting random things to be in their stomach anyway," he said."I mean, this is an animal that is the keeper of its homes and its waterways and of course if you're the keeper you're the cleaner as well." John Lever has sent the plate to the U.K. in the hope experts can determine its original use. He then intends to pass it on to police.
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