![]() ![]() Crocodiles and alligators keep the rivers clean by eating carcasses of other species and balance the habitat population. Predators have an influential role in an ecosystem and are known as ‘keystone species’ because they keep a check on increasing number of other smaller animals. Nature has its own system of balancing the ecosystem….if there is increase in number of any one species, the balance goes for a toss. I remember, how I was surprised to hear about crocodile breeding….such dangerous animal, I had thought, why would anybody want them to increase in number? But I was very much wrong obviously! While I marvelled at the ingenious idea of Bangalore based NGO in bringing attention of civil authorities towards the dangerous pot-holed roads, by filling the pot-holes with life-like crocodiles and more recently Anaconda, I remembered one such visit to Crocodile Bank near Mahabalipuram, some 40 km from Chennai, Tamilnadu.
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