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Count those teeth! Crocodile Swamp, Paignton, 10th January 2014.

False gharial
gentle lemur, 13 Jan 2014
    • gentle lemur
      Count those teeth! Crocodile Swamp, Paignton, 10th January 2014.
      13 Jan 2014
    • TeaLovingDave
      Without a single doubt the best photo of the Paignton animal anyone has managed to get so far; it has obviously settled in very well over the past year!
      13 Jan 2014
    • Jordan-Jaguar97
      Very nice specimen indeed!
      19 Jan 2014
    • Kifaru Bwana
      Here is wishing … chuck the salties … and bring in 1 or more Tomistomas.
      Wonderful and magnificent species!

      End result: two sets of quite endangered croc species with breeding potential!

      Any idea if SOME / ALL the Cuban crocs are true rhombifer or hybrids? :confused:
      19 Jan 2014
    • TeaLovingDave
      All the Cuban Crocodiles at Paignton are the hybrid stock which has a large dash of American Crocodile in its lineage.
      19 Jan 2014
    • gentle lemur
      Chucking the salties sounds like an extremely dangerous sport :eek:

      But you have to love Tomistoma :)

      Alan
      19 Jan 2014
    • Kifaru Bwana
      It is about time the EEP got serious about weeding out the hybrids and starting all over with the few pure-bred Cuban crocodiles - the species is almost CR endangered - so that makes sense.

      TOO MANY of the current population are known hybrids!
      19 Jan 2014
    • zoogiraffe
      Actually Paignton already has moved on the hybrid Cubans,and now the Cubans they have left are pure!!The 2 Hybrids were sent to Wingham where I sqaw them both a couple of years ago when I last visited Wingham,but since that visit at least 1 of them has died!
      20 Jan 2014
    • Bwassa
      Wow! nice shot Alan!
      29 Mar 2015
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