Has Gustave been caught? I saw a video on Goolge showing a hugh croc, claiming to be Gustave, being displayed on a flat bed tractor trailer. The video it listet as 2 months old.
Have search the web but could nothing confiming that he was caught.

thanks

Do you have a link to the video? I had not heard that he had been caught.

This one?

' http://www.hoax-slayer.com/new-orleans-crocodile.html '



Commentary:
The photographs that arrive with this email forward supposedly depict a giant man-eating crocodile caught swimming the flooded streets of New Orleans in the wake of destruction caused by 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The photographs are real. However, they were not taken in New Orleans. The images were displayed on various websites such as markhope.com and began circulating around the Internet via email and online forum posts long before Hurricane Katrina struck.

Apparently, the photographs were actually taken in Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo, during 2003. The original email message is very similar to the current version, except that the prankster has relocated the action to New Orleans rather than Africa. According to an article discussing the original message on About.com, information about this giant crocodile was published on July 17, 2003 in La Semaine Africaine, a French language Congolese magazine.

Also, it appears that the length, weight and age of the reptile are exaggerated in both the original Pointe Noire version of the email and the 2005 New Orleans mutation.

The About.com article notes that the magazine story records the crocodile as measuring 5 meters (around 16 feet) and weighing 850 kilos around (1,874 lbs). The animal's age is estimated to be around 50 years rather than 80 years as claimed in the messages.

The animal depicted is a Nile crocodile. Nile crocodiles are found across a large portion of Africa (but certainly not the New Orleans region) and do indeed grow to enormous sizes. According to an article on the Crocodilian Species website, Crocodylus niloticus has an average adult length of around 5 meters (about 16 feet) and has been reported as reaching 6 meters (around 19 feet) in rare cases. The article notes:

That is one huge croc..I wouldn't want to mess with it..

no thats not the one. there is one on YOUTUBE or Google videos. I can't miss if you search for it under Gustave. Its a hugh croc laying on a flat bed trailer with its head pulled back with ropes and the jaws held open with a block of wood. Its really a big croc.
thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXu7fvFfIQQ

Tragic that such a magnificent beast manages to survive for so long only to be killed for doing what Crocs do.

am surprise not to hear or read more about the capture of Gustave? No details at all. Is this the same croc in the video? It has to be...what other croc would be this size.

Looks like it is the same one, there are a few stories on google that talk about his capture.

Well sadly because of the civil war and bodies in the river Gustav acquired a taste for human flesh and like all maneaters be it crocs, lions etc it was going to cost him his life sooner or latter.

They actually made a movie about this croc a couple years back called "Primeval" and it was half way decent if you were not expecting anything Oscar worthy. Like an episode of "Desitnation Truth" mashed together with a "1970's exploitation film" and some current political stuff to keep the story grounded in reality.Mostly I just liked teh croc part though....