00:00For years he struck fear into Territory fishers, attacking boats but sparing their crews.
00:10Sweetheart's capture in 1979 made world headlines, and even in death he's entertaining millions
00:17of Darwin tourists today.
00:19They made such a great cast of him at the museum and he's travelled all over the place
00:25with that.
00:26But the recent death of another famous and massive croc has seen old rumours resurface.
00:33Cassius, once known as the world's largest croc in captivity, was caught in the same
00:38Territory river as Sweetheart and died this year in Queensland.
00:42There's a story where Cassius could have been responsible for some of Sweetheart's excesses.
00:52Cassius was certainly in the size range of the animal that was tipping over the boats.
00:58When Professor Webb and Dr Manolis helped capture Cassius in 1984,
01:03he had injuries that could have been caused by attacking boats.
01:06The top part of his snout was mangled, it had been injured,
01:11may have picked up that injury from grabbing propellers.
01:14But Dr Manolis believes that theory is a total croc.
01:18The moment Sweetheart was removed in 1979,
01:22all attacks on every boat that went into that river just stopped.
01:26Professor Webb agrees it's unlikely Cassius was the real Sweetheart,
01:30but it's rare to catch two crocodiles of that size in the same area.
01:34To catch one was, you know, you really had to outsmart them.
01:38As for Sweetheart's boat attacking tendencies?
01:41So we think that Sweetheart was attacking the propellers thinking it was another crocodile.
01:47Perhaps another case of mistaken identity.
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