When a mother crocodile leaves her nest unattended ... The mother returns to protect most of her eggs but the disturbance sets off a mass hatching. One nest saved by the neighborhood watch.

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Sometime around the end of dry season, females lay up to sixty eggs ... crocodile nests while working along waterways. Once, I found a whole series of nests along the Tempisque River with shells ...

"If we didn't collect the eggs … we'd have all these ... On the same day they hatch, the baby reptiles are taken to a crocodile farm where they're raised for meat and leather goods.

Crocodile farms in the Northern Territory pay big money for wild eggs collected by Indigenous rangers. But many wild eggs have had unviable embryos this wet season due to hotter-than-usual weather ...