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Article: Handling crocodiles: some "tails" from the tropics.(Cover Story)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Crocodiles continue to beat nature at her own game even after 200 million years. They've outlived dinosaurs, survived Ice Age temperatures, and enjoy an enviable position near the top of the food chain. But today in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state, a small, isolated population of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) fights a new threat: invasion of its limited territory by Morelet crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii).
Kenichi (Ken) Okamoto, a student at the University of Chicago, read about the problem and decided to try to find out more about what was happening. He obtained a university grant; found a field adviser, Dr. Luis Sigler, a veterinarian at the ...
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