Wow, at first I thought this reptile had a whole pile of brown vegetation on her head, but It’s all BABIES. This is one hard-working crocodile momma
That’s not a momma! See the big lump on the end of the nose? This is a gharial, a member of a sexually dimorphic species. Only the males have the nose lump.
(top gharial is female, bottom is male)
So really, this is a hard-working crocodilian dad!
Recent hatchlings of gharial crocodiles on mom’s head, the banks of the Chambal River, India. Photo by Udayan Rao Pawar. Gharial crocodiles (Gavialis gangeticus) are highly endangered with just 200 or so breeding adults remaining in 2% of their former range.
