Boa injured fighting with neighbouring crocodile
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-15 08:54
A 3.4-metre-long boa from a zoo in Yibing of Sichuan Province was badly
injured last week while fighting a 2.6-metre-long adult crocodile that lived
next to him.
The battle broke out as the boa broke into the crocodile's cage one night.
Zoo-keepers stopped them and rushed the wounded boa to a local pet hospital,
where over 40 cuts found on the big snake were sewn up.
To avoid a repeat, zoo-keepers had to move the cages of the two animals, both
protected species, away from each other.
West China Metropolis News
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