It sounds like the setup to a joke: A crocodile walks into a bar…

A saltwater crocodile measuring just two feet long is held by a patron at the Noonamah Tavern.

Drinkers at a watering hole in the Australian outback found themselves toasting a baby saltwater crocodile that wandered up to the pub’s door Sunday.

No one knows how the two-foot long (60 cm) crocodile ended up outside the Noonamah Tavern, located off a dusty highway about 25 miles (40 km) from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin.

But unusual creatures are all in a day’s drinking for the tavern, said bartender Leila Naray.

“We’ve had a lot of horses pop up. We’ve had cane toads, which are yukky,” she said. “We have had a big buffalo come in, wander around. There’s a photo of him with a beer.”

The tavern is also famous for its annual frog-racing competition, a charity event when patrons pack the bar and bet on the best hopper.

But the crocodile was apparently a first.

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A MAN who was bitten on the penis by a deadly snake yesterday told how he used a cold rum can to soothe the pain while he rang his mother to say a final goodbye.

“I thought I was gone,” Cairns carpenter Daryl Zutt said of his now notorious encounter with a brown snake during a roadside toilet stop in remote Far North Queensland.

“I thought, ‘Maybe, this is it. Maybe, I’m gonna cark it’.”

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A South African village is demanding that a bridge be built across a crocodile-infested river to stop children swimming it to get to school.

Students as young as seven have been making the crossing for two months since the community’s boat was stolen.

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A WOMAN who survived an extraordinary crocodile attack has been killed by a snake.Respected ecologist, feminist and author Val Plumwood - who described her death roll with the giant saltie as “terror, terror, terror” - was found dead on her wilderness property.The species of snake responsible for her death was still unknown last night.

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A man has been accidentally shot by a rescuer who was trying to free him from the jaws of a crocodile in northern Australia.

The victim, in his late 20s, was attacked by the reptile near a popular tourist spot on the Mary River south-east of Darwin.

He was flown to hospital by helicopter for emergency surgery for bite and bullet wounds.

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A South African man has been killed and eaten by lions at a game lodge where he worked 150km (90 miles) west of Johannesburg, police say.

Samuel Boosen, 36, was attacked after entering the enclosure on Tuesday where an estimated nine lions were kept.

“Only his spine and skull remained,” police spokesman Lesego Metsi told the South Africa Press Association

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