A White Cayman is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 16, 2014.
A White Cayman is seen at the Manu National Park in Peru's southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios July 16, 2014. This 1.8 million hectares reserve is the largest National Park in Peru and is the home of about 1000 birds species and 200 mammals species among other animals, as reptiles and amphibians, and has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world, with more than 200 varieties of trees found in one hectare. Picture taken July 16, 2014. Reuters

Most people would immediately flee at the first sign of an attacking crocodile, but an unnamed 20-year-old Australian who wrestled with the reptile and poked it in the eye.

He was wading in the water near the Wudaduk Outstation, a remote part of the Northern Territory, to get a goose that he shot while hunting. The croc made a grab for the man, bit him on the right arm and tried to bring him underwater, recalled duty superintendent Louise Jorgensen, reported the Advertiser.

The man triumphed over the 2-metre long croc, although the beast inflicted on him several puncture wounds and claw marks on his body. However, the hunter still had some strength left and managed to drive himself to a hospital to seek medical care.

To numb the pain caused by the croc attack, the victim drank Carlton Dry, an Australian lager.

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The incident has similarities with another event in 2008 when Norman Petherick rescued his wife Wendy from a crocodile by also poking the reptile in the eye. It also happened in Australia's Northern Territory where the couple were cooling off at a watering hole where the attack took place.

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