False gavial

The visitors were impressed by these teeth. Crocodile Swamp, Paignton, February 17th, 2013.

Best shot of this particular animal on ZooChat. Damn you Alan, damn you!

(I'm only saying this because of my total inability to spot it when I was there.)

http://www.zoochat.com/62/false-gharial-tomistoma-schlegelii-paignton-zoo-307122/

Damn you, Alan, for being the first person on here to see the face of that animal

Great shot though!

I don't usually bother with Crocodile Swamp as I don't like it much, but I thought I ought to try to see this fellow. On my first visit he/she was scaring people by lying in the vegetation with his/her jaws sticking in the air at 45 degrees. It is always worth a second visit to a reptile if it is almost in view, and this time it paid off.
There was a better view from the little portholes by the big water lily, but the glass was very dirty.
I'm not convinced that taking the trouble to revisit Crocodile Swamp deserves double damnation

Alan

gentle lemur said:

I'm not convinced that taking the trouble to revisit Crocodile Swamp deserves double damnation

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Mine was out of pure jealousy, you get all the good shots...

gentle lemur said:

There was a better view from the little portholes by the big water lily, but the glass was very dirty.

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I found the same, but thanks to my being quite tall I was able to hold my camera over the fencing there and get the above-linked shot unhindered by dirty portholes.

It was in the same spot yesterday, clearly in view.