Mating kills rare reptile
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A very rare and endangered female crocodile has died of suffocation in a Dutch zoo during attempted mating with a “dominant” male partner, the zoo said on Wednesday.
“In the end she couldn’t handle the dominant mating behavior of the male gavial,” Amsterdam’s Artis zoo said about the false gavial (Tomistoma schlegelii) crocodile, introduced in October as part of a breeding program.
During mating, the male false gavial holds the female down with his mouth “to show his superiority,” the zoo said, stressing that the female had “accepted this behavior.”
“She eventually died of suffocation,” the zoo said, with multiple bites all over her body, in particular around the neck.
There are only an estimated 2,500 false gavial left in the world. The crocodile is native to Malaysia, southern Myanmar and Indonesia’s Borneo, Java and Sumatra.
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