Show crocodiles build nests in sand by river bank when we look at pictures of crocodiles and alligators we hardly think ox of them as being hatched from eggs that look very much like hens eggs but they are and the eggs have hard white shells the only difference being that they are more elongated than hens eggs writes a correspondent in the montreal herald the female crocodile lays her eggs anything up to 60 in number in ro a hollow of the sand by a river bank ank she does not sit on them like a bird but allows the sun to do the hatching some crocodiles like those that live we in the dutch east indies build a nest of leaves twigs a and n d branches esin I 1 n which to lay their eggs 1 the ahe mother crocodile then retires to 10 a dista distance nce where she watches ver over the eggs this is necessary for monkeys are only too ready to wine mile and steal them after sev oral weeks a little crocodile comes out of each egg when it is ready to come it makes a sound which attracts the mother and if the eggs are buried in the sand she will at once uncover them the baby crocodile then crac cracks ks the shell and pokes the tip of its nose through the hole within a couple of hours it thrusts its whole body out and before it is even out it shows its nature for it will snap if touched directly the young crocodiles are out of the shell they are able to look after themselves they began preying on living creatures suited to their size |