From Sweden, Cuban Crocodiles Return To Their Parents’ Swampy Birthplace

In the 1970s , cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov was yield a pair of crocodiles by Fidel Castro . The couplet ( namedCastro and Hillary ) spent meter in Moscow before stop up at Stockholm ’s Skansen Zoo . This week , ten young descendent of the original crocs return to Cuba , where they ’ll be free back into the wild .

AsABC Newsreports , there ’s promise that the protected coinage , which is native to Cuba , will reproduce and repopulate :

Hiram Fernandez , a veterinarian at the [ Cuba ’s National Zoo ] , says the reptiles will be released shortly in Zapata Swamp , about 200 kilometers ( 125 miles ) southeastward of the capital . Their ranks have been thinned by hunt and diminish habitat , with few examples of Crocodylus rhombifer still found in Zapata Swamp and Cuba ’s Isle of Youth .

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