A pair of Nile crocodiles in the Ashgabat Zoo gave birth to a cub, the MIR 24 TV channel reports.

In order to get offspring, in early summer, zoo workers placed the eggs of the wards in an incubator. The crocodile hatched after 120 days. Now he is quarantined in a separate terrarium, where he should get stronger, and later he will be shown to visitors.

"The eggs of Nile crocodiles are dense, but during incubation the shell becomes thinner. When the time came, the crocodile gnawed a hole in the shell, got out of his "house" and began to make specific sounds similar to the croaking of frogs," said the guide Shirin Berdyeva. This is the first clutch of Nile crocodiles in the Ashgabat Zoo, she noted.

Recently, a pair of reticulated giraffes, which live in the wild on the territory of the Horn of Africa, also had their first child in the zoo of the Turkmen capital.

Opened in 2010, the National Museum of Wildlife of Turkmenistan is the largest in the region, covering an area of more than 40 hectares. Its territory contains more than 250 species of animals. Many of them are listed in the Red Book.

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