Crocodiles!!

We went to a croc farm the other day, and saw some huuuge crocs!! The croc in the picture with the man weighs 830kg and is 5.5m long. Really quite scarily big! They breed them to use for meat and leather - and crocodile meat is surprisingly nice! Apparently crocs can grow to weigh up to 2 tonnes and can slow their heart rates down to two beats a minute and the saltwater crocs (i.e. these ones) are the man-eaters. I don't think any of the croc we saw were man-eaters, but couldn't be sure! They had definitely eaten other crocs, usually females that had been sent in to mate with them. Once, a female attacked a male (which was a mistake) as he bit her tail off whilst tourists were watching! Wish I could have seen that! Did you know, they can cure themselves from HIV? . Pretty impressive!! The little one we're holding was really cute, it felt quite cool and soft - I can see why people have them as pets when they're little...when they grow bigger it's a different story though! They can also jump over fences (and there was just a fence between us and them) and they have bones in their skin. Umm, that's about all I can remember!!!

Roz