As Robert Recupito drove his golf cart in West Delray canal, he saw a gray body with a narrow snout laying by the water. Is that a piece of tire? Nope, its an American Crocodile.

State Wildlife Commission officers confirmed that a 7-to 8-foot Crocodile, from a usual haunts.

last year the State Wildlife Service fielded 138 crocodiles reports. Crocodiles turn up too close to homes, up to 80 reports 10 years ago.

Crocodiles is down to 300 on the tip of the Everglades. 1500 TO 2000 crocodiles occupy a core area of Key Largo, Everglades National Park and Southeastern Miami-Dade County.

American Crocodiles kill people on rare occasions, and this extends though the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America.

Crocodiles recovery result from a ban on killing them. Protect some of their habitat. The inadvertent creation of new habitat in cooling canals of the Turkey Point unclear plant. Crocodiles are listed as a endangered species in the year of 1975.