(Pictures) The story of the largest crocodiles in the world .. Withstood the world war and gangrene

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The crocodile Moya withstood the bombing and traveled from one country to another, but the captive dean of crocodiles did not come out of his small pond since his arrival at the Belgrade Zoo 83 years ago.

The zoo does not know his exact age, but this week an ad campaign celebrates his arrival in Belgrade in 1937 from a park in Germany.
"He is old and we respect his long life," explains chief veterinarian in the park, Joseph Advidi, as workers push a dead rat to the slow-moving crocodile.

"Moya" officially became the dean of the age of crocodiles in the world after the death of the famous "Saturn" crocodile last May in the Moscow Zoo. Moya was born in 1936.

Newspapers report that during the period when the crocodile moved to Belgrade, Moya was two years old when it arrived in the city in 1937. However, the zoo employees consider that this reptile animal is over 90 years old.

And he needed his small kingdom, consisting of a basin 12 meters long and seven meters wide, despite the heavy bombing in World War II, which killed most of the animals, and claimed the lives of six workers.

"Moya is always in good health, despite her advanced age," says veterinarian Joseph Advidi.

The last health problem that plagued the crocodile dates back to 2012, when veterinarians had to amputate its right front leg, due to gangrene.

"The operation was very complicated, but it was successful, and he recovered completely and adapted to the situation," Advidi explains.

Moya has little movement due to his age, but it becomes more vital when approaching food, any time or twice a month. Often he needs help in the recent period to find his "prey" that the garden workers put in front of his jaws.

His meal consisted of rats, rabbits, birds, beef or horse meat, and vitamins.

Veterinarian Joseph Advede notes that the crocodile is a cold-blooded animal, which slows its metabolism and prolongs its life: “We hope that we can celebrate its 100th birthday, because I am confident that it can live for an additional period of 15 to 20 years.”

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