DAY 135

Basically did my usual routine, feeding the tortoises, and a couple days ago started feeding the iguanas as well. Plus cleaning the pen that the Black Swans, Sacred Ibis, etc… this included shovelling the mud that had formed at the shallow end of the pond and catching the stuff floating in the water. Thankfully, they had one of those nets that are used on pools, so it wasn’t that difficult to do. I also raked the area, which surprisingly didn’t take that long, well at least not as long as I was expecting to take with the amount of area that I was raking. When finished I went and got some baby chicks to feed to the crocodiles. This is very fun to watch. You throw a chick near them and then with a swift turn of their head and a snap, snap motion the chick is completely gone. One thing that I think is cool is how, up to a certain size of course, they can swallow the entire thing without chewing or anything. The best part of feeding them today was what happened when two of the chicks fell on this one crocodiles head. The first time it landed on his head I don’t think that it realized that the chick was there. Anyways, one of the other crocodiles saw it and in a quick, swift motion turned its head snapped it up and swallowed it. The second time this happened the first crocodile was not going to let this happen again, so as soon as he felt the chick fall on his head he threw his head backwards, so that it would be in the air. Then tipped his head sideways and then waited for the chick to fall, then the “snap,snap” and then went back to as if nothing had just happened and that he had been lounging in the sun the whole time. Of course this whole spectacle was not without all the water thrashing and what not.


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