A hip(po) suit
Posted by Stan at 8/1/2007 9:03 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
Dr. Brady Barr, a reptile
specialist with the National Geographic TV channel, needed to get close
enough to Nile crocodiles in Tanzania (length: up to 20 feet) to attach
data monitors to their tails and decided to dress up as a croc and
crawl to them. With a crocodile suit, a prosthetic head and a metal
cage (and hippopotamus dung to mask his human scent), he was able to
apply tags, with video to prove it (according to a June report in
London's Daily Mail), with the scariest moment coming not from
crocodiles but when a hippo wandered by, attracted by the dung scent.
[Daily Mail (London), 6-13-07]
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