S3E3: Mugger, the Giant Crocodile

The Colonial Dept.

Jul 26, 2022•15 min•Season 3Ep. 5

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Episode description

As British, American, and French merchant houses and enterprises pour into the Philippines to fill the void left by the Galleon Trade, a giant crocodile lurks inside one such plantation in the wetlands of Laguna de Bay.

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References:

Gironiere, Paul P. De La (1854). Twenty Years in the Philippines (trans.) Harper & Brothers, New York.

Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Powell, Alvin (July 2001). “Warm, fuzzy, weird, funny: The Museum(s) of Natural History spin some tall tales.” The Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/07/warm-fuzzy-weird-funny-the-museums-of-natural-history-spin-some-tall-tales/

Abdulmuti, Chelsy Mae (20 July 2021). “As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back.” Mongabay. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-humans-close-in-on-their-habitat-crocodiles-in-the-philippines-snap-back/

Audio snippets from the Coretta Granberry vlog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064XsYc0418) and GMA 7 News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAONTRArGrI)

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