New clothes were laid out and the aroma of freshly baked poda pitha wafted through the house. Over the last decade, most human-crocodile conflicts have been reported from areas around Bhitarkanika National Park, India’s largest habitation of estuarine or saltwater crocodiles, 150 km east of the State capital, Bhubaneswar. “Existing reports suggest that the present density of saltwater crocodiles in …