Venkatesh says the Forest Department plans to undertake studies to better understand the species that inhabit the rivers flowing through the tiger reserve. , including the mugger crocodile ...

Forest officials in the Sundarbans national park said the crocodile had made jungle history by becoming the first in living memory to kill a tiger. A post-mortem examination of the carcass of an ...

Tikauli Lake is significant in many aspects – it provides important habitat for migratory birds and mugger crocodile, and also serves as a water hole for large mammals including endangered species ...

What do we know about mugger crocodiles? Muggers get their name from the Hindi word for crocodile, "maggar mach". They are a medium-sized crocodile, with adults ranging between three and four ...

The first-ever herpetofaunal survey conducted in the Core Area of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR ... ‘vulnerable’ mugger crocodile and other species of amphibians and reptiles.

This besides, the zoo has been accorded permission to release 30 mugger (marsh crocodile) into the river system of Similipal Tiger Reserve. It has been asked to keep 20 saltwater crocodiles ...

Silly as it may sound, mugger crocodiles at India’s Madras Crocodile Bank and American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park balanced sticks on their snouts to invite ...

He added that the anecdotal evidence cited is not widely accepted among crocodile researchers. The authors also said that mugger crocodiles appear to be attracted to garlands of marigold (Tagetes ...

Coimbatore: A week after a mugger crocodile was first spotted in a check dam near Sirumugai here, efforts by the forest department to capture the crocodile have gone astray. Farmers noticed the ...