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Article: Once endangered, the crocodile is making a comeback in South Florida.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 18, 1996
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MIAMI _ How do you live with a wild crocodile?
Very discreetly, as some South Floridians are learning.
Until recently the endangered reptiles, far rarer and more reclusive than their alligator kin, stuck closely to their last North American haven, a maze of brackish streams and mangrove forests near the point where the Florida Keys meet the mainland.
But efforts to protect the rare creatures have been so successful that their numbers have risen dramatically, from upward of 200 when American crocodiles were placed on the endangered species list in 1975 to somewhere between 300 and 500 today. Now the saltwater-loving crocs have begun to wander up ...