CROCODILE MANGROVE: NEW THEMATIC AREA IN FAUNIA

Faunia opens the Crocodile Mangrove, a new thematic area in which you can admire spectacular Nile crocodiles (Crocodrylus niloticus) of more than 3 meters in length. This installation recreates a typical african mangrove, wetlands and forests close to the sea  where the Nile crocodiles hunt their prey and buried their eggs.

The Nile crocodile (Crocodrylus niloticus) is one of the three species of this creatures that live in Africa and the second in size of the world. Their copies can reach 6 m long and 1,000 kg. Likewise, these animals are very aggressive and with a great power of bite. The Nile crocodiles are authentic prehistoric vestiges, they have changed very little morphologically since the age of the dinosaurs. It dwells in lakes and rivers of freshwater throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and in the western area of Madagascar. The Nile Crocodiles attacks animals that are close to drink and that caught by surprise in a spectacular attack.

The crocodile: a god in Ancient Egypt.

The Nile crocodile was revered in Ancient Egypt under the figure of Sobek, a god crocodile associated with fertility, protection and the power of pharaoh. During the Mid Empire, the principal place of worship of God was the city of Shedet, known by greeks as Cocodrilopolis. Such was the adoration of the egyptian civilization by this animal that it was found sarcophagi with crocodiles mummified.

A portion of Africa in the heart of Faunia

In the Crocodile Mangrove of Faunia you can admire eight copies of Nile crocodiles of between 2 and 3.30 meters length. This new thematic area account with a pond of freshwater 125 cubic meters, 200 square meters and 80 centimeters of maximum depth. The crocodiles also have two fine hot sand beaches of 60 square meters: its temperature is 30ºC every day. In this way, the crocodiles always have a constant source of heat and thus obtain sufficient energy to carry out its daily metabolism and activities. The Crocodile Mangrove have throughout the year a tropical, among 25ºC and 30ºC.