A crocodile farm in South Africa is forced to open flood gates and release the reptiles into rising waters. At least 2,000 crocodiles have been recaptured. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.By Peroshni Govender, Jon Herskovitz and Nelson Banya, ReutersJOHANNESBURG - South Africa has called out the police to join the hunt for as many as 10,000 crocodiles on the loose after escaping from a farm during floods and being washed into one of southern Africa's biggest rivers, officials said Friday.
Crocodile farmers, locals and police have trapped thousands of the reptiles, using plastic bands to tie their legs behind their backs and then piling them into pickup trucks.
The flood gates at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm, near to the Botswana and Zimbabwe borders, were opened on Sunday because it was feared that rising flood waters would crush the reptiles, releasing some 15,000 crocodiles into the Limpopo River (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/24/16679286-15000-crocodiles-escape-from-south-africa-farm?lite).
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