it could have been Crocodile Donald

News reports over the past couple of days have pointed to a situation of an abandoned crocodile farm i the Jordan Valley in Israel containing 200 crocodiles who have resorted to cannibalism, eating each other's limbs and body parts due to lack of food.

We visited this farm back in the late 90s. Even back then we saw crocs that were disfigured from injuries and missing limbs and it was clear to us they were fighting with each other and biting each other. I did not know they were cannibals due to lack of food, just assumed it is how they interact with each other.

So after the farm closed down due to a change in the law making these crocodiles a protected species, they kind of just got abandoned and became a menace to society with the area not being maintained. Honestly it seems irresponsible for the government to change the law forcing this farm to shut down with no plan of what to do with the existing crocs. But regardless of that, that is what happened and the crocs have been running wild on each other ever since.

Israel recently culled over 200 crocodiles from that area.

I think this was a missed opportunity.

Israel could have cleaned them up and gifted them to President Donald Trump to add to his Alligator Alcatraz compound. What a waste.

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