Dubai Crocodile Park opens its doors. Here are the exciting surprises that await you

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In an exciting new experience, Dubai Crocodile Park opened its doors to visitors in Mushrif on Tuesday, giving its guests the opportunity to learn about these creatures in a fun and safe environment, which also aims to raise awareness of the importance of preserving crocodiles and protecting them from extinction.

The park is home to 250 Nile crocodiles of different ages and sizes, as well as a unique natural history museum that includes a collection of fossilized skull reproductions of the most notorious animals and dinosaurs that crocodiles have experienced, and landscaped outdoor areas.

The park also offers visitors the opportunity to learn about small crocodiles and how they are cared for in incubators specially adapted to care for baby crocodiles, as well as the older ones in the African lake-inspired aquarium.

For his part, crocodile specialist in the park Mark Janswana told Emirates Today: The crocodiles in the park are of about the same age, but they vary in size, due to the fact that the group includes a group of males and females, noting that the latter are always smaller in size.

Regarding the care of small crocodiles, Janswana said that the park provides special care for them, similar to their lifestyle in nature, as they are fed in a way suitable for wildlife, as small crocodiles catch insects, frogs and fish, and the size of the prey increases with the crocodile growing and growing.

"We feed crocodiles based on this basis, providing small pieces of food to them in line with their size, and gradually increasing them as they grow in a way similar to the way they live in nature."

Janswana revealed that «there are 40 crocodiles witnessed by Dubai Crocodile Park born four months ago, and full care is provided to them, in several stages, the first of which is the care of eggs and maintaining their temperature, and the care of young people since birth, as they are placed in incubators designated in the museum for two years and then transferred to the aquarium for five years and then to the main area in the park».

The main crocodile area in the park contains outdoor natural spaces that enable visitors to enjoy watching crocodiles up close, and observing them in their natural environment.

The park extends over an area of 20,<> square meters equipped with the best environmental and health conditions with automatic control of the temperature of the pond water throughout the year in a large area to ensure that crocodiles move comfortably.

The Natural History Museum in the park provides rich information about the history of crocodiles since the age of dinosaurs and their survival from extinction thanks to their exceptional and distinctive structure that is still present in current species and that fascinated herpetologists, as crocodiles have amazing organs that are still the subject of research to this day, enabling them to avoid mass extinction.