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Lolong (died 10 February 2013) was the largest crocodile in captivity. He was a saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ) measured at 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in), and weighed 1,075 kg (2,370 lb), making him one of the largest crocodiles ever measured from snout-to-tail.Lolong was caught in a Bunawan creek in the province of Agusan del Sur in the Philippines on 3 September 2011. [3] [7] He was captured with the joint cooperation of the local government unit, residents, and crocodile hunters of Palawan. The giant crocodile was hunted over a period of three weeks; once it was found, it took around 100 people to bring him onto land. [8] He became aggressive at several points during the capture, and twice broke restraining ropes before eventually being properly secured. [9] He was estimated to be at least 50 years old.Lolong was suspected of eating a fisherman who went missing in the town of Bunawan, and also of consuming a 12-year-old girl whose head was discovered two years earlier. He was also the primary suspect in the disappearance of water buffaloes in the known area. In the examination of the stomach contents after his capture, no remnants of water buffaloes reported missing before Lolong's capture were found, nor human remains.

ABOUT LOLONG

The crocodile was named after Ernesto "Lolong" Goloran Cañete as one of the veteran crocodile hunters from the Palawan Crocodile and Wildlife Reservation Center, who led the hunt. [12] After weeks of stalking, the hunt for Lolong took its toll on Cañete's health. He died of a heart attack several days before the crocodile was captured.In June 2012, six months after Australian zoologist and crocodile expert Dr. Adam Britton gathered measurements, Lolong was officially certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's largest crocodile in captivity" at 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in). [15] [16] [17] Experts from the National Geographic Channel found out that Lolong breaks the record of the previous record-holder: a 5.48 m (18 ft 0 in) male saltwater crocodile named Cassius kept in the crocodile park of MarineLand Melanesia in Queensland, Australia. The certification was read in public during Bunawan's annual local festival, Araw Ng Bunawan (Bunawan Day).Lolong was found dead inside his compound at around 8 p.m. on 10 February 2013. The necropsy revealed he had died of pneumonia and cardiac arrest, which was aggravated by a fungal infection and stress. [19] His remains were to be preserved by taxidermy. [20] However, by July, it was reported that Lolong's remains were in deep freeze for five months at the Davao Crocodile Park, and that local government of Bunawan and the National Museum, jointly responsible, had not yet apparently agreed on a course of action. [21] By June 2017, Lolong's remains were moved to theNational Museum of Natural History in Manila which is set to open within the year.