As I surfed the inter webs , I landed on this interesting video of a man who casually swims with crocodiles. I thought, forget the seven wonders of the world, I might as well have spotted a potential 8th world wonder in this brave fellow.
According to , nicknamed "Chito", Gilberto Shedden, is a Costa Rican fisherman and naturalist who has an unusual friend: “Pocho”, the crocodile longer than 5 meters, and which weighs up to half a ton.
Chito's is a story of the power of a little kindness which resulted into one of the greatest friendship story ever told between a man and an animal, a crocodile to be precise.
According to the site, the fisherman found the crocodile with a gunshot wound on the banks of Parismina river back in 1991. Pocho had been shot in the left eye by a cattle farmer and was close to death.
Chito and his friends took the wounded animal where they nursed pocho back to health.
Gilberto fed the crocodile with fish, chicken and medicine where he even slept with the animal during its recovery.
“Food wasn’t enough. The crocodile needed my love to regain the will to live,” noted Gilberto. He hid the croc in an obscured pond under trees deep in a nearby forest until he obtained the necessary wildlife permits from Costa Rican authorities to own and raise the gravely injured crocodile legally.
After the crocodile, named “Pocho”, improved to normal health, Gilberto released it to a nearby river to return to its normal life. The next morning, Gilberto awoke outside his home to find the crocodile had followed him home and was sleeping outside in his veranda.
Living in the water outside Gilberto's home, the crocodile, who made a ‘decision’ and preferred to spend the rest of his life with the man who saved his life, became a member of Gilberto's family, along with his second wife and daughter.
-ourplnt.com
Watch the video below courtesy of Ashley Lauren.
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