{{A very rare and endangered female crocodile has died of suffocation in a Dutch zoo during attempted mating with a “dominant” male partner, the zoo said on Wednesday.}}<\/p>\n
“In the end she couldn’t handle the dominant mating behaviour of the male gavial,” Amsterdam’s Artis zoo said in a statement of the false gavial (Tomistoma schlegelii) crocodile, introduced in October as part of a breeding programme.<\/p>\n
During mating, the male false gavial holds the female down with his mouth “to show his superiority”, the zoo said, stressing that the female had “accepted this behaviour”.<\/p>\n
“She eventually died of suffocation,” the zoo said, with multiple bites all over her body, in particular around the neck.<\/p>\n
There are only an estimated 2 500 false gavial left in the world. The crocodile is native to Malaysia, southern Myanmar and Indonesia’s Borneo, Java and Sumatra.<\/p>\n
The zoo had for years had a male and female false gavial but they did not mate and so they introduced another female, who died.<\/p>\n
In the wild male false gavials can mate with multiple females.<\/p>\n
Only 10 zoos in Europe have a captive false gavial.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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