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Photo of the Day #385: False Gharial

By laelaps on October 29, 2008.

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A false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.


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Great shot! I presume this was an exhibit with an underwater viewing gallery of some sort?

False gharials are probably among the most underappreciated extant crocodilians. They get to quite huge sizes, are severely threatened by deforestation in South East Asia, and there's still the controversy over just where they belong in the crocodilian family tree; whether the Tomistominae is more closely related to Crocodylus or Gavialis.

Great shot! I presume this was an exhibit with an underwater viewing gallery of some sort?

False gharials are probably among the most underappreciated extant crocodilians. They get to quite huge sizes, are severely threatened by deforestation in South East Asia, and there's still the controversy over just where they belong in the crocodilian family tree - whether the Tomistominae is more closely related to Crocodylus or Gavialis.