The Crocodile Hunter: Crocodiles of the Revolution

In this installment of Animal Planet's highly rated cable show The Crocodile Hunter, the stupefyingly optimistic Steve Irwin travels to war-torn East Timor, where he has been asked to rescue two crocodiles from their ill-suited enclosures. Part cowboy, part engineer, part veterinarian, and part construction foreman, Irwin and his crew from Australia Zoo and the Australian army build lovely new tiled ponds for the crocs, then restrain them with ropes, taking the smaller of the two to the ocean for a deep cleaning, and then drag/carry them both to their new homes. As you can imagine, the creatures don't take too kindly to all this action, so, as Irwin's fans have come to expect, he "goes in" to tie up the beasts' jaws, and then gets up close and personal to encourage them to try their new digs. However, this particular episode is not really that interesting or compelling, even danger-wise, and I never did figure out how the crocs got into trouble in the first place (did it somehow have something to do with the oft-mentioned East Timor independence war, or was it a misguided attempt on the part of the East Timor people to "save" sacred crocs, or something else?). And what are the crocs going to find to eat in their fashionable but artificial homes? Though the tape touches on a few details of crocodile biology (they have soft underbellies, and their bodies fill with lactic acid when stressed, for instance), this tape serves primarily entertainment interests, and is therefore strictly optional. Purchase according to demand. Also available: The Crocodile Hunter: Africa's Deadliest Snakes and The Crocodile Hunter: Spitting Cobras of the World at the same price. Aud: P. (K. Glaser)