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Piggyback rides and other crocodile fun

Ambush predators show their playful side

JUST FOR FUN  A male Cuban crocodile in a zoo gives his longtime female companion a piggyback ride (left), and a West African dwarf crocodile fiddles with a blossom for seemingly no good reason (right).

Left: V. Dinets; Right: V. Dinets/Animal Behavior and Cognition 2015.

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

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“There is a lady who has a few pet crocodiles and they play tug-of-war,” says Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.