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Northern Safari (1956)

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clip Crocodile hunting education content clip 1

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Clip description

Outback adventurer Keith F Adams hunts and skins a crocodile. He cuts the croc open to reveal the leg of a cow that it has killed. A poisonous taipan slithers by.

Curator’s notes

In 1955 crocodile hunting was legal. Adams goads his dog by moving the dead animal’s jaws.