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In December 2016, a story that three brothers in Limpopo, South Africa, were arrested for raping a crocodile that was attacking their livestock was widely spread on social media: While this story found a welcoming home in certain dark corners of the Internet as genuine news, and was picked up by several disreputable web sites aimed at mocking African culture, it contains not even a shred of truth. This story was originally published by the web site iMzansi, a satire publication, on 18 October 2016: Only one crocodilian species is endemic to South Africa: the Nile crocodile. This formidable creature has a reputation as a man-eater, and in the photograph displayed with this fictional story is almost certainly dead.
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