ROTATING CROCODILE.
REST CURE PRESCRIBED.
By some misadventure a young crocodile at the Zoological Gardens recently knocked his head and slightly damaged the brain. Though his appetite remains unimpaired, certain " motor-centres'' have become so affected that, when in the water, he rotates, screw-fashion, instead of progressing normally. The patient, who has been prescribed rest ana quiet in a small tank placed in a corridor from which the public are excluded, measures his age by months and lengths by inches. When taken out of the water recently there was nothing abnormal* to be seen save that he carried his head rather on one side. When dropped into his tank the extraordinary " over-and-over" action was manifested as he played about in the water. Similar cases are not unknown. An injury to the head has been known to cause a man to walk sideways like a crab. One man could walk forward perfectly well, but could never turn a comer. The " waltzing mice" of Japan are also sufferers from an abnormality of the brain. The " Zoo's" patient, it is believed, wil.' make a perfect recovery in time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14853, 2 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184ROTATING CROCODILE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14853, 2 December 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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