Re: new dinosaurs and 16 Foot Man Eating Croc Caught In Uganda (joke)

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Dann Pigdon wrote:

> Crocs tend to taste like whatever they've been eating. Some croc farms
> feed their crocs almost nothing but chickens, hence a chicken-like
> flavour. Apparently young wild crocs tend to have a slight fishy taste,
> and farmed crocs in Australia that are fed feral pig carcasses taste a
> bit different again (more like human flesh, I would suspect!).

Yeah, I mentioned this earlier in this thread...

http://dml.cmnh.org/2005Mar/msg00259.html

... but I didn't mention the crocs fed on a diet of feral pig.  :-)  One 
would suspect that they might taste somewhat like pork, more so than human 
flesh.  Having never tasted the latter, I would not be a good judge of 
flavor.  ;-)


Tim