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#11 Crocodile Feeding, Thailand

Crocodile feeding has emerged as a trend in recent times with tourists offered the chance to feed giant snapping reptiles using great chunks of meat that are attached to fishing rods.

But such a hazardous practice is not encouraged. The authorities here are keen to close down such enterprises, but still crocodile feeding continues, posing some obvious dangers to those left holding the rods.

This tends to be a popular pursuit in Pattaya, a resort town on Thailand’s sun-kissed eastern Gulf Coast. But those tempted to have a go should think again. Sometimes the feeding is done from boats. But elsewhere, precarious platforms are overloaded with curious participants lured to crocodile farms to test their luck. The featured picture was taken by a shocked motorcycle-taxi rider Jon Nok. It shows hundreds of crocodiles circling the raft in a pond at the Elephant Kingdom farm. This attraction was so dangerous it was shut down in 2016 for 90 days so health and safety checks can be carried. 

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