Back home, he's doing great! Swimming around and lurking under things, inspecting the fish as they pass. Very active little fella. A little feisty but he didn't spaz when I picked him up this time. Really, the only thing he seems to get bothered with it if you touch his snout. Stroking the back of the neck is fine by him, but the moment you touch the snout, he'll snap that jaw wide open. Gonna leave him alone the rest of today so he can just chill. I'll work with him and handling a little tomorrow, just take baby steps so I don't stress him.
Such a gorgeous baby croc. <3 We've named him Ammit. Ammit was the Egyptian demon that accompanied Anubis when it came time for the judgement of one's soul. If the heart of the departed was deemed unpure against the feather of Ma'at, then Ammit would eat the heart and the soul was deemed restless at this point, unable to pass on to Osiris and immortality. Ammit was what appeared to be a hybridized animal of a croc, hippo, and lion, three of the largest man eating creatures the Egyptians feared. (I'm really just assuming gender, we have no idea at this young.)
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