Biologist Baskar wakes up early every morning and goes along with crocodile keeper Manikandan to monitor the movements of the reptiles in eight enclaves at the Arignar Anna Zoological park, popularly known as Vandalur Zoo.
The first evidence has been found for the destructive effect of the cane toad invasion on one of northern Australia's top predators, the freshwater crocodile.
Veterinary surgeons, scientists, researchers, rangers and managers met in the Kruger National Park to discuss the discovery of at least 30 of crocodile carcasses recently discovered in the Olifants River.
More than 28 million people and counting have seen the extraordinary footage on YouTube: a baby buffalo in a tug of war between lions and a crocodile. This National Geographic full-length enhanced true story has an amazing ending.
EIGHTEEN young saltwater crocodiles have been stolen from a crocodile farm in the Darwin region.
The brazen theft occurred between 4pm (CST) on Monday and 7am on Tuesday morning, police said.
They said an unknown number of intruders had entered the
On a typical spring afternoon on the leafy campus of the University of Miami, many of the 15,000 students are in class, others are romping around the athletic field, and a few are seeing how close they can get to a 6-foot American crocodile sunbathing
When an alligator eats, the amount it consumes is like a 130-pound woman eating a 30-pound hamburger. University of Utah biologist C. G. Farmer and colleagues have figured out how alligators digest such big -- and often bony -- meals: They divert blood
A BBC crew managed to film over 40 of the huge beasts gathering and working together to feast on fish migrating up the Mary River in Australia. This cooperative feeding behaviour has only recently been discovered - saltwater crocodiles are usually highly
Crocodiles are ferocious creatures that will eat snakes, buffalo, cattle and even people. New research explains crocodiles' spectacular method of digesting large meals that lets them eat 23 percent of their body weight at once, bones and all.
At roughly 20 feet (6 meters) long and approaching 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms), Gustave was reputed to have devoured scores, even hundreds of villagers in the war-weary central African country, picking off victims like some maniacal serial killer.
In the first-ever captive breeding of endangered 'Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman' in South Asia, six eggs have hatched at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. Three dwarf caimans (Paleosuchus Palpebrosus), one of the five species of caiman found in South America, had
The Plzen zoo has acquired three young Siamese crocodiles, a south-east Asian freshwater species, thereby becoming the only Czech zoo to keep this endangered reptile. The keepers hope that the crocodiles might start breeding after they grow adult in five
A MAN has been charged and two boys will face a youth justice conference after a crocodile was bashed to death with a rock in far north Queensland.
The boys, aged 12 and 14, told The Cairns Post newspaper today they caught and killed a 1.8m crocodile t
AUSTRALIA Zoo has put the bite on the Caloundra Bowls Club for serving crocodile for dinner.
A special chicken and crocodile mornay pie served up on Friday night offended some customers, who complained to the zoo.
Club head chef Donna Forrest said
I don't like snakes. They creep me out, remind me of the Biblical reference, they bite, and they stink like snake pee. But whether or not you like them, it's hard to dispute that what's being done to them in the name of fashion is not okay. Here's...
