The Quest to Preserve the Last of Castro's Crocodiles ... | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2018年6月21日—Inthewild,theCuban—oneoftheworld'srarestcrocodiles—isfoundalmostexclusivelywithinthe300-square-kilometerfreshwaterinteriorofthe ...

Beside a spit of land jutting into a swampy enclosure, a female crocodile breaks the waterline, the bony ridges on her back jagged like an electrocardiogram. Her eyes track six sweat-soaked men standing in a haphazard semicircle, gripping poles twice their own height, as mosquitos orbit their straw hats. Another man works quickly with a hoe, leveling the dried grasses of her nest and chewing up the earth until he finds her unborn brood, laid just three days ago. The crocodile thrashes and lunges forward, but two men raise their weapons, ready to deliver a hard thump to the snout if she approaches.