Pauline, a Nile crocodile captured in 1953 and brought to the Eala botanical garden in 1978, rests between vegetation in Mbandaka, DR Congo, on April 13, 2024 (Photo by Arsene Mpiana / AFP)
Mbandaka, DR Congo: The fearsome slender-snouted crocodile can make torch lights explode just with its eyes — so the legend goes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Along the Congo River, such myths stay with the Banunu fishermen, even if their…

