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Updated: June 16, 2025
In the wild, at the most, one or two survive out of the 30-35 eggs as many are lost to predators, etc., but here due to artificial incubation, special enclosures, etc., a large number tend to survive. Therefore the croc bank has stopped all breeding of this species which meant that we had a surfeit of eggs for breakfast!
Of course, you had a few of them running up trees and then you couldn't do anything about it. I soon discovered that though it looked scarier, it was easier to catch them in the water. The croc bank is filled with pits. Each of these pits is an enclosure varying in size, depending on the size and type of reptile, and the number of them in it.
All decks had finally been cleared for my long awaited trip to the Crocodile Bank at Mamallapuram. Nearly three months earlier my dad had written to Romulus Whitaker the legendary snakeman who now runs the Croc Bank asking whether I could spend some time there.
Instead Dad had phoned to say that the final arrangements for my stay at Croc Bank were still being finalised and that I could use the 10 days or so in between to learn what I could from Dr Vijayalakshmi about spiders, and the unusual use she intends to put them to. I had readily agreed. CIKS is housed in a one storey building and Dr Vijayalakshmi's office is on the first floor.
I carried with me in my haversack my red-eared turtle, and another small turtle found locally in Goa, the croc teeth and photos of myself at the Snake Park, the Croc Bank, etc. I arrived in Belgaum on 4th June and was met at the bus stand by my cousin Lucano who took me straight to his home.
I explained that I had already paid Rs.25 to the other conductor only to find that there was no "other conductor", only a clever cheat who had taken me for a ride while the bus was still stationary. I had to shell out another 18 rupees for my journey to the Croc Bank! What I found hard to accept was that the man was able to cheat me in front of all those passengers sitting in the bus.
Du Croc remonstrated, "but the Lords answered they could not stop the mouths of ministers to speak against themselves." There was a convention of Protestants in Edinburgh on October 20, but lords did not attend, and few lairds were present.
The wooded sides of the island must have been full of reindeer, to judge by the quantities of tracks to be seen on every side. If we had had one or two hounds to send into the thickets we might have made hecatombs of them. From Le Croc I went round all our neighbouring fishing stations Saint Julien, the Baie Rouge, &c. Cod were extraordinarily numerous that year.
But who's going to enjoy it when your inside keeps on saying, `Soup and 'tater soup and 'tater soup and 'tater, and there ain't none? Plenty of croc soup, of course. But, I say, Mister Archie, sir, think it would be safe to bathe?" "No; but I think you must be half-dotty, as you call it, to propose such a thing." "Right, sir. Of course!
The result was astounding. The crocodile had aimed, true to a hair you bet, he being a croc. to grab the king's son's hindlegs, and pull him under. He had not reckoned on the turn, and the turn did it. His snout struck hindlegs, which were not where they ought, by his calculations, to have been, but were four or five inches away to one side.
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