Cold snap: Paris police find chilly croc in car
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Published: 4 Feb, 2015 CET.
Updated: Wed 4 Feb 2015 12:12 CET
Police in Paris were left scratching their heads this week after they found a freezing cold crocodile in the back of a car during a routine traffic control.
Talk about a cold snap. Police officers who pulled over a car in Gagny, in Seine-Saint-Denis, just to the north of Paris were surprised to find a near-frozen crocodile in the back seat. The 50-centimetre caiman was "paralyzed from the cold" reported French news website Le Parisien, with recent temperatures in the area dropping below zero at nights. Police took the crocodile to a nearby veterinary school, where it will be nursed back to health before being taken to a zoo. The driver admitted to obtaining the animal illegally. French law states that would-be crocodile owners need a licence. Caiman can grow up to a few metres in length, and are native to Central and South America.
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Talk about a cold snap.
Police officers who pulled over a car in Gagny, in Seine-Saint-Denis, just to the north of Paris were surprised to find a near-frozen crocodile in the back seat.
The 50-centimetre caiman was "paralyzed from the cold" reported French news website Le Parisien, with recent temperatures in the area dropping below zero at nights.
Police took the crocodile to a nearby veterinary school, where it will be nursed back to health before being taken to a zoo.
The driver admitted to obtaining the animal illegally. French law states that would-be crocodile owners need a licence.
Caiman can grow up to a few metres in length, and are native to Central and South America.
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