text: A monster crocodile has been caught devouring a one metre long lizard in one bite at a river. Fishing guide Carol Gleeson watched as the hungry fresh water crocodile swallowed the water monitor whole, which is a type of goanna, at the Mary River near Pine Creek in Northern Territory. After feasting on its' meal, the three-metre reptile noticed Ms Gleeson from a distance before it submerged into the water. 'It was a real shock,' Ms Gleeson told Daily Mail Australia. 'There was only a little bit of the tail hanging out of his mouth, then he saw me a went under.' Ms Gleeson has been living by the Mary River Station for more than 15 years where she runs the Mary River Australian Safaris. With several years of fishing and hunting, Ms Gleeson said she has never witnessed anything like this before despite living near a croc infested location. 'It was amazing - you don't see that very often if ever,' she said. 'I’ve seen a saltwater fella eating a leg of a deer.' A monster crocodile has been caught devouring a one metre long lizard in one bite at a river this week . the hungry fresh water crocodile swallowed the water monitor whole at a river in Northern Territory . Fishing guide Carol Gleeson watched as the hungry fresh water crocodile swallowed the lizard whole . The incident comes just a month after a 4.38 metre croc was caught last month after it had been eating dogs and threatening locals in a Daly River community, NT News reported. The Parks and Wildlife Crocodile Management team trapped the creature near Nauiyu and successfully removed him. Senior ranger Tom Nichols said the animal had been in the area for ‘a couple of weeks’. ‘It was taking dogs from the community and posing a threat to kids in the area,’ he told NT News. ‘A trap was set about a week before the croc was caught.’ The Parks and Wildlife Crocodile Management load the 4.38m crocodile onto a trailer . It took three members of the croc management team and local police to get the half-ton saltie out of the trap. ‘We gave it some drugs, pulled it out of the trap and loaded it up on our skid trailer,’ Mr Nichols said. ‘Some crocs are worse than others but he wasn’t too bad.' ‘We stopped in Adelaide River to wet him down and that gave the local kids, and adults too, a chance to see the croc and ask questions.’ This was the 58th crocodile removed from Top End waters this year. It was later taken to the Darwin Crocodile Farm at Noonamah. The huge crocodile's jaws are taped shut before it is pulled from the trap up to the trailer .
target: A three-metre crocodile ate a one metre long lizard in one bite at a river .
  Fishing guide Carol Gleeson watched the battle at Mary River this week .
  Ms Gleeson said she has never witnessed anything like this before .
  It comes after a 4.38m croc had been eating dogs was caught last month .