Crocodile Surgery

(image © Bar­croft Media)

Not exactly subtle but when you look like a cro­codile to start with, it prob­ably doesn’t mat­ter that much really…

In Decem­ber 2008 an unfor­tu­nate 3-m long, wild Amer­ican cro­codile Crocodylus acu­tus was run over by a car, in Flor­ida. The animal sus­tained sub­stan­tial head injur­ies: appar­ently its snout was ‘hanging limp’ and it was unable to feed. It was cap­tured and taken to the Miami MetroZoo.

From Tet­ra­pod Zoology.