Human Remains

The contents of a wild animal's stomach can be truly amazing. Although extremely gory it is a fact that when the contents of sharks, crocodiles and even snakes like the Anaconda's stomach are examined the findings can be unbelievable. Not only do they contain food matter, or some kind of vegetation, but in some instances remains of human bodies, large pieces of animals, and even inedible objects that make you wonder why the animal would swallow these undesirable objects in the first place.

Last week in Australia's north, a tiger shark was caught by two fishermen. Upon opening it's belly the two men stumbled across some gruesome findings. Inside the shark were the skull and another bone from a human body. Forensic tests showed the remains to belong to an elderly gentleman who was last seen strolling along the beach in the area. No one seems to know how the poor man met his fate, other than where he ended up. This is not the first time in Australia that remains have been found inside a shark. There was a famous arm in the shark case in Sydney, where a captive shark was found to have a human arm inside it's stomach. It was predicted that the arm had been there for between eight and eighteen days. The arm was so well preserved that the victim could be identified by the tattoos on the forearm. The one piece of information that scientists were able to gather from this incident is that most probably shark digestion is relatively slow. Even more extraordinary than the arm case is a report also from Sydney on the contents of a 3.5 metre Whaler shark. It's stomach was reported to contain: eight legs of mutton, half a ham, 135kg of horse flesh, a piece of sacking, the hind quarters of a dog, and a ship scraper. Can you imagine all of that possibly fitting inside of one animal. It must have been a huge shark if all of that can fit in what is one small human in comparison. Of course, all of this took place back when abattoirs were able to dump wastage in the waterways, and this would obviously not happen today, but it just shows the possibilities when dealing with sharks.

Crocodiles are no different, only that less crocs are actually caught and examined, as crocodile hunting is a much more dangerous activity, and here in Australia they are actually on the endangered species list. It seems, however, in Florida a local golf course had a surprise visit from one such croc. Evidently there was a resident croc living in the waterways near the golf course. Occasionally this croc made an appearance, until this one particular day when a golfer went mysteriously missing leaving his full set of golf clubs on the green. After much searching and a lot of discussion it was decided that the resident croc should be examined. The crocodile was caught and killed and upon opening up the stomach the missing man was found. I have an actual photograph on my computer of the mans arm being pulled out of the crocodiles stomach. Much too gory to post, but I have it if anyone is interested.

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