Gustave n’ingona nini yo mu Burundi. Izwiho kuba yarariye abantu, kandi bivugwa ko yahitanye abantu bagera kuri 300 baturutse ku nkombe z’umugezi wa Ruzizi no ku nkombe yo mu majyaruguru y’ikiyaga cya Tanganyika. Nubwo umubare nyawo utoroshye kuwugenzura.
Gustave yitiriwe Patrice Faye, inzobere mu bumenyi bw’inyamaswa yize kuri Gustave kandi ayikoraho iperereza guhera mu mpera za 1990. Byinshi mubizwi kuri Gustave bikomoka kuri film Capturing the Killer Croc, yerekanwe muri 2004 kuri PBS. Filime yerekana kugerageza gufata no kwiga kuri Gustave.
Kubera ko Gustave itarafatwa, uburebure n’uburemere bwayo ntiburamenyekana, ariko mu 2002 byavuzwe ko ishobora “kuba ifite uburebure bwa metero 5,5” z’uburebure, kandi ifite ibiro birenga 910 kg.
Yagereranijwe kuba ifite imyaka 100 kugirango igere ku bunini nk’ubwo; icyakora, kurushaho kwitondera Gustave byagaragaje amenyo yuzuye igihe yafunguye umunwa. Kubera ko ingona imaze imyaka 100 “igomba kuba idafite amenyo” (dukurikije inyandiko), yagereranijwe ko “bishoboka ko itarengeje imyaka 60, kandi birashoboka ko izakomeza gukura”.
Gustave izwiho kandi inkovu eshatu z’amasasu ku mubiri wayo ndetse no ku bitugu by’iburyo hayo bahabonye igikomere kinini cyane. Ibintu bikikije inkovu enye ntibizwi. Abahanga mu bya siyansi n’abahanga mu bya herpetologue bakoze ubushakashatsi kuri Gustave bavuga ko ubunini bwayo n’uburemere bidasanzwe biyibuza ubushobozi bwo guhiga byuhuse nk’ibisanzwe urugero: nk’amafi, impongo na imparage, bikayihatira kwibasira inyamaswa nini nk’imvubu, inyamaswa nini ndetse n’abantu. Nk’uko abantu benshi babibabwira, ngo yahigaga kandi agasiga imirambo y’abahohotewe.
Filime documentaire yanavuze ko kubera ko ingona zishobora kugenda amezi menshi zitariye, Gustave yashoboraga guhitamo umuhigo yitonze.
Mu 2009 Gustave yongeye kugaragara mu ruzi rwa Ruzizi hafi y’ikiyaga cya Tanganyika.
Mu Gufata Croc, Patrice Faye n’abandi bahanga bagerageje gufata Gustave. Nk’uko iyi filime ibivuga, Patrice yakoze iperereza ry’imyaka ibiri mbere yo kugerageza.
Ubwa mbere, umutego upima toni na metero 9 z’uburebure niwo itsinda ryahise ritega Gustave hanyuma muri uwo umutego rishyiramo kamera yihishe imbere.
Ubwoko butandukanye bwinshyi bwakoreshejwe bw’imitego, nyamara ntanumwe muri yo wafashe Gustave cyangwa ikindi kiremwa icyo aricyo cyose.
Abahanga bahise bashyira imitego itatu nini ifatika kugirango bongere amahirwe yo gufata Gustave; nubwo ingona nto zafashwe n’imitego, Gustave ntabwo yafashwe n’iyo mitego.
Nyuma y’icyumweru gishize mbere yo guhatirwa kuva mu gihugu, itsinda ryashyize ihene nzima mu kazu. Ntakintu na kimwe cyabaye kugeza nijoro kuko kamera yananiwe gufata amashusho kubera ikibazo cy’umuyaga.
Bukeye bwaho, basanze akazu karohamye igice kandi ihene irazimira. Iri tsinda ryatekereje ko amazi yazamutse yafashaga ihene guhunga, cyangwa ko akazu kanyeganyeze, ariko kubera ko nta kamera yafataga amajwi cyangwa amashusho, nta mwanzuro bashoboraga gufata.
Mu mwaka wa 2019, Ikinyamakuru Travel Africa Magazine cyavuze ko Gustave yishwe. Ariko ntabwo bavuga uko yishwe cyangwa uwayishe.
