Lucknow zoo welcomes 12 newborn baby alligators!
Get ready to spot newborn alligators on your next visit to the Lucknow zoo!
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden in Lucknow has welcomed 12 newborn alligators. With this, the total number of alligators here has extended to 19. Apparently, this is for the first time in the past of Lucknow zoo that a mother alligator has given birth to 12 babies.
Lucknow zoo now home to 19 alligators
The mother alligator was brought to the city zoo from Kukrail Gharial Forest and put aside about 22 years ago. Other than the newborns, the 7 alligators involve three males, three juveniles, and one female.
Deputy director of the Zoo, Utkarsh Shukla said, "The total count of the infants will be committed only in the basking season when all the gharials come out from the water to be in the sun to sustain their body temperatures during winters. We deduce some of the infants are still in the land while others are in the water."
Did you know... A baby alligator has a tooth on its nose, called an eye tooth?
The alligators disguise their eggs on the land areas around the pond. For up to two-three months, the mother protects the nests. As soon as the baby alligators are ready to conceive, they start to chirp. In an effort to come out of the egg, they use the eye tooth. This keen protrusion is located on the alligator’s nose and is used by them to break through their shell when it’s time to hatch. The mother lodgings down the nest and carries her babies to the water in her mouth.
Published Date: July 27, 2022, 12:23 p.m.
