Crocodiles of the World News from Crocodiles Of The World

How about the "other gharial"?

 

What about hybrid gharial?

 

I've always known this species as false gharial although I agree that name seems wrong now.

My prefered name for this species is Schlegel's gharial; that's what they used to be called at London Zoo in days gone by (although it is many years since I last heard anybody use that name).

 

To be honest,Tomistoma do look like the love child of a gharial and a saltwater croc.

 

I would say a richly marked Freshwater Croc would be a more accurate representation.But a slender snout comes close.

 

how about The-Species-Formerly-Known-As False Gharial?

 

The False False Gharial?

 

About time this news broke I have had to sit on this since the eggs where laid.Congratulations Shaun superb breeding ,nice to see you pushing out the breeding record of UK firsts for Crocs in the UK.

 

1/ New outside area due to open in four weeks time to include giant tortoises from Chester . This will more than double the outside area. It will also include African Spur thighed move to there plus a number of new species.
2/ Komodo dragon enclosure more than doubled in area and looks very impressive.
3/ Fishing cat were excellent at four o'clock feed.
4/ Large number of young Tomisoma young in nursery area 12+ .

 

Galapagos Tortoise on show at COTW. Also African Spur Tortoises on show in neighbouring exhibit, around by the otters.

Alligator Snapping Turtle and Freshwater Crocodiles also now on show.

Work has started on the second barn, behind the current Large Crocs barn, this will include a huge Nile Crocodile exhibit allowing their 30 + Nile crocs to have a large exhibit. There will also be exhibits, so the Crocodiles in the Main Zoo can effectively move to the new Barn, and the Main Zoo used to house and show more Reptiles and other animals, with the two big Barns being the main Croc barns.

Counted at least 16 Tomistona hatchlings which are about a foot big now.

6 Baby Alligators in the nursery as well.

 

I had my first visit yesterday, and was thoroughly impressed. The species line-up is spectacular, and all the reptile enclosures seemed of a high quality.

Not much on-show in the nursery, I think there were two Tomistoma and a few American alligator young, not much else. The alligators did appear to be sitting on eggs though, judging by the mound in their enclosure.

The only major downer is that fishing cat enclosure. Now granted, I didn't see a cat in it, but I'm glad I didn't to be honest as it would probably have been a bit pushed for space. And after looking at my photos it appears they only have one species of snake on-show? Did I miss something?

 

Quite a few more than 2 tomistoma; I think there were at least 10 across three basins.

 

I only have a photo of two but now I think about it there were definitely more. I did think one of the basins had alligators in? Am I remembering that wrong as well?

 

No that's right. Two or three of them?

 

Five black tree monitor lizards have recently hatched at Crocodiles of the World.

More information can be found in the link below:
Black Tree Monitor Lizards Hatch at Zoo - Crocodiles Of The World

 

A news item about recent animal movements has been uploaded to the Crocodiles of the World website. Included in this is news of the arrival of fishes from the now-closed Underwater World in Surrey and the transfer of a saltwater crocodile to Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens, both mentioned previously in other threads.

One new bit of information is that two female black caiman have moved into Crocodiles of the World from Krokodille Zoo in Denmark.

More information can be found in the link below:
Animal moves at the zoo - Crocodiles Of The World

 

One of the rarer caiman species.

Aalborg Zoo has been successful in breeding black caiman.