It is an incredibly ugly gruesome-looking animal, rather like a baby crocodile but with a shorter head.

(Palin wanted the camera to focus on the fact he held a baby crocodile in his hands for five seconds.)

Other prey eaten by this species has included frogs, water snakes, Nile monitors and baby crocodiles.

At Turkey Point, it is almost time for the baby crocodiles to hatch, and the mothers drift in the water nearby, waiting.

A baby crocodile has an egg tooth on the end of its snout.

Mind you, they're not beyond tackling baby crocodiles and getting, in their curiosity, a little too close to massive snakes - as we saw.

However, a baby crocodile is seen swimming in the lake, before an adult crocodile attacks the camera.

We were no more true relatives of theirs, their advisors said, than baby crocodiles.

I've also got an idea for a baby crocodile in your bag if you'd like to hear it too.

If the temperature in the nest is less than 32 degrees Celsius, the baby crocodiles will be female.