>And did any of you catch the hound-tracking story recently in
>the press? Turns out some dudes found their hound's radio
>collars inside a living alligator! After animal control dispatched
>the critter (sigh), radio collars from dogs lost over the last
>seven years were found! Apparently this 'gator was something
>of a specialist in poaching hunter's hounds.
>
>- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
>

A similar story is told by Australian naturalist Stanley Breeden in his
lovely book "Visions of a Rainforest". In this case a researcher studying
Lumholtz's tree kangaroos on the Atherton Tableland in northern Queensland
(one of my favourite spots on Earth, BTW) had a number of radio-collared
animals. One day, however, he tracked a signal not to a tree kangaroo but
to a large amethystine python with a bulge in its stomach!
--
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