By time I wasn't necessarily referring to the daily ins and outs which I presume a good keeper does daily. But rather the fact that crocodilians are long lived and their care will extend perhaps well past when people are capable of caring for them. Public institutions have a large advantage over us private guys in this area.

And it's one that needs to be considered on our end.




>>He will have them until they are ready to go to a zoological park or another breeding program. I know that some are the white bengals and the others are bengals. He's had siberians and other breeds in. Honestly I don't go anywhere near them. Well I will hold the cubs, but, not going near the bigguns. He's in some kind of tiger preservation thing.
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>>As for the crocs yeah it takes quite a bit of time. For example, I got up at 3:30am this morn. Started the coffe pot, got my boots and coat on and went to our building. Mind you it is in the low teens here. Checked all of the enclosures and animals. Checked the temps and water levels and then had to go back in shower and be at the police dept by 5am. When I get off I will change go back in and update the logs for the day, feed the animals on rotation for today (rotation being the daily list of which animals are fed), do some cleaning and checking on all of the equipment. Go in have dinner go to bed and start all over tomorrow.
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CDieter
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