FYI gharials are like crocodiles but they have long, slender snouts. And they live in India and throughout Asia.
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.
Everything from parasites to pollution has been blamed for the deaths of the gharials --massive reptiles that look like their crocodile relatives, but with long slender snouts.
The bodies, measuring between five and 10 feet long, have been found washed up on the banks of the Chambal River since early December, according to conservationists and officials.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/01/22/rarereptile.deaths.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstoriesNot enough is being done on animal conservation, which is exactly why this is happening in the first place. Maybe if the Indian government would do something that would stop polluting rivers, they wouldn't have dead gharials in the first place.
