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Saltwater Crocodile
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This endangered reptile actually is a danger to underwater enthusiasts and a number of people are killed and injured each year. It's hide has a very high commercial value because of its ease of skinning and because of this it is protected.

Here is a very nice article sent to me by Dr. Omar Sanchez, published in The World Journal of Surgery, June 20, 2009.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/52v011760388l348/fulltext.html

The saltwater crocodile is the largest living crocodilian species, growing to 6-7 meters in length and inhabits a very large area of northern Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Treatment

Severe trauma or large predator injury (head injury, limb injury due to falls, equipment crush, prop injuries)