A crocodile from China was afraid to go ashore and drowned he was afraid to get out of the water and died. This is reported by the Global Times.
An employee of a crocodile farm wrote about the death of the animal in social networks. “It was a timid crocodile who dived into the water and refused to go out because he was afraid of everything. In the end, it led to a sad outcome, ”he wrote. He stressed that for the first time in his life he saw a crocodile drown.
A local crocodile breeder noted that the reptile was very shy and it was easy to scare her away.
Social media users were surprised that the animal, which spends most of its life in water, suddenly lost its ability to swim. One of them wrote: “The poor creature was literally scared to death.”
According to experts, usually crocodiles are able to dive and float to the surface of the water in order to breathe air through the lungs. The rare case of drowning could be associated with an animal disease that prevented the crocodile from breathing normally.
Earlier it was reported that Chinese workers working on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi face up to five years in prison for killing a crocodile. They tied the reptile, put on a helmet and dark glasses, and began to take pictures with it, after which they killed it, cooked it and ate it.