gharial facts Underwater gharial and Red crowned roofed turtle

Among the finest spots for a getaway is the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology at Vadanemmeli on East Coast Road. The place, which is a coastal dune forest, is just a few kilometres ahead of Mamallapuram. It is often referred to as the ‘Croc Bank.'

The Bank, which is the biggest sanctuary for crocodiles in India, has come up with ‘Adopt a Reptile Scheme.' On Sundays, there will be a demonstration of feeding the crocodiles, which are housed in enclosures called ‘pens.' There is also a snake venom extraction centre run by the Irula Snake Catchers Industrial Cooperative Society. The centre will remain closed till the end of May as venom extraction is restricted during the peak of summer.

An aquarium where people can get to see the Gharial underwater is very popular, especially among children. There is a separate enclosure to house young reptiles. Here, volunteers educate visitors about how reptiles lay their eggs, how they look after the nests, and the threats the young reptiles are exposed to.

The red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga) is a species of freshwater turtle endemic to South Asia. It was the type species of its former genus Kachuga. Females can grow to a shell length of 56 cm (22 in) and weigh 25 kilograms (55 lb), but males are considerably smaller. The turtles like to bask in the sun on land. In the breeding season, the heads and necks of male turtles exhibit bright red, yellow and blue coloring. The females excavate nests in which they lay clutches of up to thirty eggs.

Historically, this turtle was found in central Nepal, northeastern India, Bangladesh and probably Burma, but it has suffered declines in population due to being harvested for meat and shells, drowned in fishing nets, water pollution, hydro-electric schemes and habitat loss. Fewer than four hundred adult females are thought to remain in the wild, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature rating this turtle as being "critically endangered". India has put conservation measures in place, and a captive breeding programme has been initiated.

Source: www.tortoisetrust.org and http://www.inaturalist.org/

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