Aired (October 27, 2024): Dalawang endemic na buwaya, na-rescue sa magkaibang insidente sa Arakan, North Cotabato at Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Sa pagsusuri nina Doc Ferds Recio at Doc Nielsen Donato, napag-alaman nilang may lamang mga malalaking bato ang tiyan ng mga buwaya. Ano kaya ang kahihinatnan ng mga ito? Panoorin ang video!
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00:00The weather was nice, so Aramila, a poor girl, was happily sunbathing under the sun.
00:12Suddenly, someone came and caught her.
00:19The poor girl was sold to a resort and put in a small prison.
00:27Where she was often abandoned by people.
00:37The stories of the life of a girl are not just a fantasy.
00:42It's just a fantasy.
00:55I went to the resort where Aramila lives.
00:59Do you have animals that you take care of here?
01:04Only here, sir.
01:05Do you have permits?
01:07Not yet, sir.
01:08Not yet?
01:10How did this crocodile come to you?
01:13We just bought it, sir.
01:15He brought it to us.
01:17He said, I have a crocodile.
01:20I will buy it for you.
01:22So we bought it for 5,000.
01:24Oh, I see.
01:25But where did you get it?
01:27In Pulangi River.
01:29Fishing?
01:32Yes, that's where we got it.
01:34In the scale patterns of life, this is a Bukarot or Philippine Crocodile.
01:41Bukarot, endemic, can only be found here in the Philippines.
01:46Based on the IUCN Red List or Threatened Species, they are already critically endangered.
01:53It means that their species is in danger of extinction.
01:59Because this Philippine Crocodile is so small,
02:03my judgment was I could handle it without using ropes,
02:07by just capturing it in the proper place,
02:09where I can't bite it and it won't get hurt.
02:13Even though it's small, this crocodile is powerful.
02:18This is the end.
02:27Look at the snout.
02:29The snout is already deformed.
02:31It's already pointing upward.
02:40The base of its jaw is too wide.
02:44This part.
02:46Maybe it got a possible metabolic bone disease,
02:50that's why it looks a bit deformed.
02:54Crocodiles get metabolic bone disease if they don't get popular during the day.
03:01As you can see, its scutes are still intact.
03:05It means that this Philippine Crocodile really came from the wild.
03:09I'm holding one of the most endangered Philippine reptiles in the whole world.
03:17We saw it in a small enclosure.
03:22What are the rocks that you put here?
03:25Those are rocks from the cliff.
03:27This one?
03:28Yes.
03:29The one on the side?
03:30These people are God-loving.
03:32They throw rocks?
03:33Yes, they throw rocks.
03:34A lot of people got abused because they wanted to make this poor crocodile move.
03:42That's why they throw rocks like this.
03:44We got more than 700 pieces of rocks from Aramila's cage.
03:52Along with some woods and trash.
03:56This crocodile was thrown 700 times.
04:01It's really pitiful.
04:03We brought Aramila to a clinic to get an X-ray.
04:09Sir Albert, have we seen anything?
04:11Hey, perfect X-ray.
04:13You got a good one.
04:14But what is that?
04:19We were surprised to see this.
04:23We were surprised to see this.
04:25I was right in my suspicions.
04:27There were a lot of kids throwing rocks in his cage.
04:31I suspected that there might be a lot of kids throwing rocks.
04:351, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
04:41We saw 14 rocks on the AP side.
04:46If we look at it laterally, we can count them.
04:50In the second X-ray, everything became clearer.
04:54This is the X-ray of the posterior part of the crocodile.
04:58There's a little deformity in his femurs.
05:03It should be straight.
05:05But there's an angle.
05:06He also has a certain degree of metabolic bone disease.
05:11It's not just Aramila who has this story.
05:16No matter how fierce a creature is,
05:24when it's time to imprison people,
05:27it disappears.
05:32The Saltwater Crocodile of Georgia has been living in an ice plant for three decades.
05:39A large part of the Channel Georgia
05:42looks like it's not just a simple hole.
05:47With the help of the local DNR of the Saltwater Crocodile,
05:51we tried to restrain Georgia
05:54to examine its health.
05:58In the wild, the creatures have a strong predatory instinct.
06:02They can feel a little bit of fear.
06:13Is it a male?
06:14No.
06:17It's a female.
06:19Turn around.
06:22Come on, turn around.
06:23Turn around, boy.
06:24It doesn't want to.
06:28But Georgia almost didn't turn around.
06:35It doesn't want to turn around.
06:36No, it's okay. It should turn around.
06:39It's okay.
06:43Wait, wait, wait.
06:44Turn around, turn around.
06:45Go to the other side.
06:46Don't open your mouth yet.
06:47Open your mouth a little bit so it can turn around.
06:49Suddenly...
06:52It's okay, it's okay.
06:53It's okay, it's okay.
06:54It's okay, it's okay.
06:55It's okay, it's okay.
06:56It's okay, it's okay.
07:04It's okay.
07:12It's okay.
07:17This is the biggest one we're concerned about.
07:21It's very hard.
07:22Look at the other side.
07:23It's not supposed to be like this.
07:25It's like there's a solid mass inside.
07:28To find out what's wrong with Georgia,
07:31we brought her to the hospital.
07:43There it is.
07:44Oh, my God.
07:46Stones.
07:48It's full of stones.
07:50There are a lot of stones here.
07:53I'm thinking, these stones,
07:55maybe when it gets food,
07:57that's why the rocks are there.
08:03Why is it like this there?
08:04How big is it?
08:07That's why I'm asking.
08:09That's why I'm asking,
08:10because it's possible that if it eats,
08:13it will swallow the stones.
08:16We can see that.
08:19Same thing.
08:21It can be like that.
08:22We can see that in other animals.
08:24In animals,
08:25it's normal for them to have stones
08:27inside their stomachs.
08:29But they use those small stones
08:32to help them digest.
08:34But if those stones are a bit big,
08:36it's not normal for that animal.
08:38It's possible that it's mistaken
08:40that those stones are food
08:41and that it's being thrown to its cages.
08:43It's hard for us to get those stones
08:46inside its body.
08:53Animals use the stones in their stomachs
08:56to help them digest food.
09:01But if the stones are too big,
09:04it can be a cause of illness.
09:08In nature,
09:09it can lead to death.
09:14Now,
09:15Ara Mila is being taken care of
09:17by a private individual.
09:19She is now living in a farm
09:21where she is given enough food
09:24and no more stones.
09:27While Georgia
09:28was given medicine for five months
09:30to help her digest the stones
09:32inside her stomach.
09:36She is now more active
09:38according to the ice plant guardians.
09:43Whenever we see animals in cages,
09:47we should not throw stones at them or hurt them.
09:50Because if someone should throw a stone
09:53at their lives,
09:54it's a chance for them to live freely
09:57in their natural habitat.
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