Crocodile Mangrove

In the Cocodrile Mangrove it is possible to admire spectacular copies of crocodile of the Nile (Crocodrylus niloticus) of more than 3 meters of length. This installation recreates a typical African mangrove, humid and wooded zones near to the sea with sandbanks where the crocodiles of the Nile hunt his dams and bury his puttings of eggs.

The crocodile of the Nile (Crocodrylus niloticus) is one of three species of this reptile that live in Africa and the second one in size of the world. His copies can reach 6 m. of length and 1.000 kg of weight. Likewise, they are animal very aggressive and with a great power of graft. The crocodiles of the Nile are authentic prehistoric vestiges since they have changed very slightly morphologically from the age of the dinosaurs. It lives in lakes and rivers of the whole sub-Saharan Africa and in the western zone of Madagascar. It feeds of animals that approach to drink and to which they catch for surprise in a spectacular assault.

The crocodile of the Nile was revered in the Former Egypt under the figure of Sobek, a god crocodile revered by the former Egyptians associated with the fertility, the protection and the power of the Pharaoh. During the Average Empire, the principal place of worship of this god was Shemet's city, known by the Greeks as Cocodrilopolis. There was such the adoration of the Egyptian civilization for this animal that sarchofagi have managed to find mummified crocodiles.

In the Cocodrile Mangrove there will be able to be admired eight crocodiles of the Nile of between 2 and 3,30 meters of length. This thematic area possesses a reservoir of water of 125 cubic meters of capacity, 200 square meters of surface and 80 centimeters of maximum depth. The crocodiles also will have two beaches of thin sand of 60 square meters. Thus, the crocodiles always will have a constant source of heat and this way obtain the sufficient energy to carry out his metabolism and activity diaries. The Crocodile Mangrove will have all the year round an own temperature of the tropic, between them 25ºC and 30ºC.