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Updated: June 16, 2025
It is a huge place with a beach just behind it. Croc Bank is home to thousands of crocodiles, all of them housed in pits of varying sizes with sloping walls to enable water to collect at the centre so that the crocs can sunbathe on the upper part of the slopes.
I took several pictures of myself at this time with the reptiles at the croc bank to remember my days here and also to record for posterity my new look. I felt truly sorry when it was time for me to leave Croc Bank. I promised everyone that I'd be back soon. I travelled through the night on a bus to Bangalore. At my foot was the turtle in a box and I had left a small opening for her to breathe.
I also had occasion to participate a few times in the operations involved in shifting crocodiles from one location to another. That was quite an adventure in itself! One day Rom and Harry decided to shift the largest male Gharial in the Croc Bank from one pit to another as it had broken its upper jaw in a fight with another male during the previous breeding season.
Depending on the time left, I would speak about other things too, like crocodiles, turtles or spiders. At the end of the class, I would show them croc teeth, photos of myself with snakes, crocs, monitors, etc., and then my red-eared turtle that I always carried around with me in my bag. At this point there would be maximum excitement.
There is a separate fee for visitors for entering the snake area. While the poisonous snakes are kept in pots in a snake room, the King Cobras, of course, have special separate rooms. Croc Bank also has enclosures and pits for various kinds of turtles and large aquariums with fish in them. At one end of the campus is the library, well stocked with books and magazines on all these creatures.
He always says `Hech' when he hits out." "Yes, of course." "Well, wait a bit, sir. Some day I'll pay him back. I'll make him say `Hech' out louder. Hurt you much, sir?" "Only made my arm feel a bit numb. Stop a minute and listen. What's that?" "A splash!" "Some one rowing?" "Croc, perhaps, sir, with his tail." "Then we are close to the river." "Splendid, Mister Archie!
Another reason of course was that I was dying to get to the Crocodile Bank in Mamallapuram and being in Chennai which was close to the Croc Bank was infinitely better than being far away in Pune where Dr Bhawalkar works. Although Uncle Mano, being a heart patient, does not usually travel by bus, he deliberately took me by bus that morning so that I could get to know the route to New College.
When we first came you know the Major's way `Nonsense, he said. `There will be three hundred idle men here with nothing to do, and they can fetch as much water as we want for the day's supply from the river. And I said, `No. In a hot country like this I want my men to have good, pure, sparkling well water, and not to be forced to drink croc and campong drainage soup.
On land, catching them by grabbing the tail was much faster, but one had to avoid the biting head by quickly grabbing the neck. Once, when the Croc Bank staff wanted to get some monitors down from the trees, they just took a long stick and pushed them over from the height of almost a two storey building. They fell on the ground but suffered no damage and just continued running around.
Eventually the crate was used as a seed bed and a fine crop of jackfruit seedlings was raised in the box. At the end of February, I was eager and ready to set out again. Although some contacts for the study of bee-keeping had been made by my dad, I was personally not very much interested in the subject. Crocs, snakes and the wild had gripped me and I was longing to get back to the Croc Bank.
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