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THE STORIES BEHIND THE IMAGES

Check out the stories behind some of the images on our website, each one with a little bit of history about crocs in Europe, our network members or croc projects around the world

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A keeper dressed in an old fashioned suit hold a baby alligator in each hand

ZSL London Zoo 1919

A keeper at London Zoo holds two baby alligators in 1919. Photograph by Frederick William Bond, ZSL's accountant and unofficial photographer.

Alligators basking together in an artificial tropical river enclosure

ZSL London Zoo Reptile House

Taken in 1928 this image shows alligators at London Zoo. Photograph by Frederick William Bond, ZSL's accountant and unofficial photographer.

A mugger crocodile basks lazily on a fallen tree in a river

Mugger Crocodile in Chitwan National Park

Taken in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, by ECN member and 2018 speaker, Phoebe Griffith. The mugger (Crocodylus palustris) population in this Park and surrounding community forests is recovering well due to protection of rivers and wetlands by both the Park and communities.

Head of an American Crocodile watching the photographer from the water

An American Croc in San Pedro, Belize

This photo was taken by ECNM speaker Joe Kristoffer Partyka. Behind a hotel, some people were bringing tourists down at dusk and charging them to feed crocs. The Crocodile Research Coalition (headed up by ECNM speaker Marisa Tellez) were brought in together with ECNM speaker Flavio Morrissey to mitigate the issue before someone had a negative interaction with the crocs. At first, 17 crocs showed up as soon as they heard voices. Flavio made a plan to use non-invasive negative reinforcement training to remove the positive connection the crocs had to human presence. The last day of training, only three crocs remained, and they would no longer approach when humans came down to the waters edge. After that the security staff were trained and the responsibility for continuing the negative reinforcement was transferred to them.

An illustration from Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Amphibien in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen

A picture atlas from 1864 by L.J. Fitzinger, an Austrian zoologist who lived 1802-1884. Fitzinger was curator at the Naturhisorisches Museum, and director of the zoos of Munich and Budapest.

An illustration of a broad-snouted caiman head

An archival mystery from the ZSL library

From the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) archives, this label was in the archived papers of Joan Proctor 'dragon lady' and London Zoo's first female Curator of Reptiles. Signed DWO and dated '51 - 20 years after Proctor died. How are they in her papers?

Drone image of a gharial basking in shallow water on a sand bank

Drone image by the Gharial Ecology Project

The Gharial Ecology Project on the Chambal River has provided an exceptional insight into the lives of gharial, as shared with us by our 2019 Keynote Speaker Professor Jeff Lang. This drone image was taken by Jailabdeen during drone surveys on the Chambal.

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