The croc’s owner, Gilberto Shedden, better known as “Chito,” said his partner was nearing 60 years old. On Sunday – the day Pocho and Chito normally frolicked in the water for visitors – the village held a grand funeral for the huge reptile. Chito placed the 5-meter, 450-kilo dead crocodile in a wagon and hitched it to a car that
Photo: Australia Zoo via Getty Images. When Steve Irwin was 6 years old, he caught a common brown venomous snake. While most kids (and adults!) would shudder at the very thought of a deadly
The same goes for different species of crocodiles kept in zoos and similar facilities. For example, according to the official at the Yekaterinburg Zoo in Russia, a male crocodile that lived there died when he was 115 years old. There was a freshwater crocodile in the Australia Zoo that was between 120 and 140 years old when it died.
Crocodiles are long-lived animals, with some species known to reach over 100 years old in the wild. The average lifespan of a crocodile in captivity is around 70 years. The oldest known crocodile in captivity was “Muja”, a Serbian crocodile that died in 2012 at the age of 110.
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