Compulsory feeding of crocodile at Taronga Park Zoo, 1934

Compulsory feeding of crocodile at Taronga Park Zoo, 1934. This specimen was shipped from Mount St John to Taronga Park, where it refused to eat and was forcibly fed by propping its jaws open with long wooden poles. Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1934, p.12

Theme:
Curiosity, Dreaming
Related: 
Townsville’s Mount St John Zoo
Keywords:
crocodiles, zoo
Date of copyright: 
17 February 2015
Date captured: 
17 February 2015
Date created: 
17 February 2015