Crocs prove to be most impatient patients during health check-up at Peruvian zoo

Crocs prove to be most impatient patients during health check-up at Peruvian zoo

VIDEO SHOWS: PERU ROLLING ON GROUND WITH MOUTH OPEN / CARETAKERS SITTING ON TOP OF CROCODILE / SOUNDBITES FROM ZOO CARETAKERS / CARETAKERS RUNNING HEALTH TESTS ON SUBDUED CROCODILE


SHOWS: LIMA, PERU (MARCH 31, 2023)

1. CROCODILE PERFORMING DEATH ROLL AND RESISTING CAPTURE EFFORTS FROM CARETAKERS

2. VARIOUS OF CROCODILES RESISTING CAPTURE EFFORTS FROM CARETAKERS

3. CARETAKERS SITTING ON TOP OF CROCODILE TO CONTROL IT

4. CROCODILE BEING DRAGGED OUT OF POND WITH ROPE

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VETERINARIAN AT HUACHIPA ZOO, EDUARDO TAFUR, SAYING:

"All this procedure that we have carried out with all this control, with all this medical and sanitary check-up, this extraction of samples, this evaluation contributes not only to protect the species, the individual, as we see with the individuals that we have here in the zoo, but it also contributes to protecting the species as well.”

6. SUBDUED CROCODILE TIED TO MAKESHIFT WOODEN STRETCHER

7. CARETAKERS RUNNING HEALTH TESTS ON CROCODILE

8. CROCODILE WITH EYES COVERED DURING HEALTH CHECK-UP

9. CROCODILE EYE

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HEAD OF REPTILE DEPARTMENT AT HUACHIPA ZOO, JOSE FLORES, SAYING:

"The male, known as "Coco", is four and a half metres long and weighs 230 kilos and we have three females who weigh 90 (kilos), the other one 100 (kilos) and the other one is 105 (kilos).”

11. CROCODILE WITH EYES COVERED

12. CARETAKERS RELEASE CROCODILE AFTER HEALTH CHECK-UP