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Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis)

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Do you have another photo of this specimen? For itseyes and teeth I think that could be the Chinese Alligator.
 
I really wish to have another photo, because sunlight made an horrible portrait for that. But the enclosure says Osteolaemus tetraspis so unless the label is wrong, this is a dwarf croc :)
 
I will check it the next time I visit the terrarium. I think that the terrarium of the Dwarf Crocodile have not plants.
 
Well, must be the Chinese alligator then. The enclosure was on the side of the caiman lizards, Gila monster, tejus, etc.
 
The other photo is clearly a Chinese Alligator, the one that it's between the Rhinoceros Iguanas and Cuvier's dwarf caimans.

Maybe this map I made could be useful for you to identify the crocs (it's in catalan, but include the binomial names):
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Kcsnuk4J71A/TMW_y4csmlI/AAAAAAAAC9c/ChMBtazQ_ko/s912/Diapositiva1.PNG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Kcsnuk4J71A/TMW_y2jYcuI/AAAAAAAAC9g/b_IQX5PZnk0/s912/Diapositiva2.PNG

If you have a portait of any of the crocodile specimens of the zoo I can identify it. The crocs are my favorites :D
 
Thanks! Yep, this is the map that I used for put the names. But probably I don't taked the photos in strictly order (I suppose, coming back again to enclosures once the people left it free) although I tried to do.

So, I missed the Palaeosuchus palpebrosus. Arghñgrfx. Well, maybe I will come another year to photograph it - once the cuban croc and giant salamander are visible to public :)

P.S. Do you would like to come to Berlin zoo with me this August?
 
Cuban crocs are not on display (but are still at the zoo) and the giant salamander died many years ago (I only saw it when I was a child). Now there are only tiger salamanders at the "toca-toca" (you can see their terrarium on the upper floor of the Terrarium if you are in front of the yacares exhibit.... but you will need a teleobjective to read the sign :D).

Interesting offer the Berlin trip. I visited the Zoo two times and I still want to see the tuatara. It will include the Tierpark too? I only visted it one time an there are a lot of interesting animals to see. Maybe we could prepare a "quedada" to see if more people join us.
 
Ah! I went to Bcn with Aramacao and I understood that the giant salamander was just on the site that you mentioned for tiger salamanders - he tried to see it since the front of yacares...

Well, will be fantastic if you can come to Berlin. My plan is visit both Zoo and Tierpark, in two different days, in middle August. I'll do the travel with my mother, but maybe she prefair visit different things while us visit zoos. Will be fantastic to go with more people that can help each other in our own language. And maybe the zoo can made some sort of group discount for us. I will go to Zoos del Mundo for advert it!
 

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