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Dear All,

Modern gharials dug up their nests in an overbank' floodplain or
pond,the female lay their eggs in, and afterwards covers them with sand.
I cannot find a reference where it explains what happen next. I
suppose the crocodile babies harched and the broken egg is buried
afterwards with sand.

Please, I would appreciate if some body can help me here.







Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:03 am

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Dear All, Modern gharials dug up their nests in an overbank' floodplain or pond,the female lay their eggs in, and afterwards covers them with sand. I cannot...
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Nov 26, 2007
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Dear cogombra, Gharial mother chooses a high slopy sand bank. She climbs up the bank and digs a pit with hind limbs; lays all the eggs in it and covers it back...
Lala A.K. Singh
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Nov 26, 2007
11:35 am

We have a fossil crocodile egg very similar to those laid by gharials embedded with fine clayey silt . We think that the clasy indicates that specimen was...
Xavier Panades I Blas
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Nov 26, 2007
12:27 pm

(1) Present day Gharials occur only in perennial rivers-- the Gangetic River system, the Btahmaputra River system and the Mahanadi. During the flood, they may...
Lala A.K. Singh
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Nov 26, 2007
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