Brady Barr with a captured Cave Crocodile beneath the Ankarana Nature Reserve in Madagascar. Photograph copyright Brady Barr\/NGT&F<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am not sure what animal today’s post will be about but I can tell you that I am pretty excited to pass on this information.\u00a0 I know you have probably read the title and think that the post is about the Nile Crocodile, however, I am actually going to talk about the “Cave Crocodiles” which are most likely a subspecies of the Nile Crocodile. The locals in Madagascar near Ankarana Nature Reserve have long known about crocodiles that live hundreds of feet below ground.\u00a0 In 2003, Scientists managed to go down there and find out if their were indeed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024,52],"tags":[348,4029,567,569,71,568,566,4025,258],"yoast_head":"\n
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