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When traveling in Australia, Israeli Novon Mashiah quickly found out why crocodiles should never be teased. While Mashiah was leaning over the back of the boat trying to snap an up close and personal shot of the crocodile, the animal jumped out of ...

FADE IN:  We are in the far remote north of tropical Queensland in Australia. It is a warm Fall day (OK, Spring, since it's the Southern hemisphere) in October. Camera pans across a placid beach as an elderly man sits in the sand, applying ...

Wildlife one comes across in ones travels is one way to know you've arrived somewhere new. In Singapore, it was the geckos that climbed on our walls to take refuge behind the artwork. In The Gambia, it was the pouch rats that jumped over the ...

What would you do if you saw an crocodile walking down an airplane aisle? Perhaps you'd rub your eyes, shake your head to clear any cobwebs, clean your glasses-- if you wore them and ask, "Is that a crocodile?" Wouldn't a crocodile be about the ...

Amsterdam airport just won an award for their "something to declare" PR stunt. To remind arriving passengers to be honest, and use the red line to declare taxable items, they used suitcases with fake crocodiles sticking out the side. The suitcases ...

It must be difficult to look inconspicuous with 3 live crocodiles strapped to your waist. At least it was for one woman trying to cross through the Gaza-Egypt border crossing. Despite the woman's veil, and many layers of clothing, border guards ...

European low-cost airline Ryanair has a pretty good reputation for being friendly and laidback, but the inflight latitude doesn't stretch to allowing a metre-long fluffy (and inanimate) crocodile to sit beside the emergency exit door. A passenger on ...

Adventurers needn't head to the Outback to get a taste of what it is like to be eye-to-eye with Australian wildlife. A new attraction at Crocosaurus Cove, in Darwin, Northern Territory, allows divers to come within inches of giant saltwater ...

No, this is not, to my knowledge, the child of Steve Irwin that he, the Croc hunter, dangled over the gaping, toothed, gnashing maw of a live crocodile. This is the one he fed to the sharks. Just kidding. That's irreverent. Even if he was a bit kooky ...

Kakadu National Park covers 7,646 square miles of Australia's Top End in the Northern Territory. How big is that? Well, you could fit both Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks inside of Kakadu with room to spare for all of the fanny packs ...

The long wait is finally over for the grand reopening of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. After being partially or completely closed for the past three years, the museum's vast collection is finally open to the public again, with ...

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.gadling.com/2009/10/08/outback-australia-kakadu-culture-camp/'; tweetmeme_source = 'Gadling'; Yesterday I told you about the wonders of Kakadu National Park. What made my experience there all the more organic was ...

Safaris in Kenya are being impacted by a three year drought that has dessicated the landscape and killed many animals. In Samburu National Reserve, elephants are dying for lack of food and other species such a zebra and crocodiles are also suffering. ...

America may seem civilized to you, as you lock your door and hop on the subway or into the car, then hang around indoors all day. When you go to the zoo, there's a disconnect. Ferocious animals seem to be things that exist behind bars. It's easy to ...

For travelers in search of a little adrenaline, the Arenal region of Costa Rica serves up adventure any way you like it. The area around the Arenal volcano in Costa Rica, about 80 miles north of San Jose in the center of the narrow country, is ...