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Cassius the record-breaking crocodile, who died after spending almost 40 years in captivity in Queensland, is being remembered as a “sweetheart”. The saltwater reptile was different to others of his species, and not just because he won a Guinness World Record for the biggest crocodile in captivity. “He had these big eyes that you’d look into and you could look into his soul,” one of his former keepers, Toody Scott, told AAP on Saturday.
But Cassius, Scott said, turned out to be the real “sweetheart”. In 1987, George Craig, an adventurer, hunter and founder of the Cairns facility — and Scott’s grandfather — relocated Cassius to Green Island and an almost four-decade friendship began. “They did have a close bond,” Scott said. “George would quietly sit with Cassius for hours on end.
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