Health
Endangered croc gives piggyback ride to 100 babies after mating with ‘7 or 8 females’ – Live Science
Parenting is tough work for freshwater gharials.
Picking the kids up from school takes on a different meaning for crocodylian
parents.
In this photo, taken by India-based photographer Dhritiman Mukherjee, a male freshwater gharial shows us why. Bobbing in the waters of northern India’s National Chambal Sanctuary, the croc waits as more than 100 of his month-old children clamber onto his back for safe passage.
“Other crocs carry their young about in their mouths,” Patrick Campbell, the senior curator of reptiles at London’s Natural History …
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