This crocodile preserve is a home for hundreds of native freshwater river crocs. They are endanged in the wild because people now live where they live...and living together with a croc is hard. The place has also become a snake sanctuary...there's a tribe of people called the Irula who have captured poisonous snakes for thousands of years...they used to kill them or sell them to snake charmers. Now, with a subsidie program, they sell them to this place where they can live out their life. The men here collect venom from the snakes, many of them highly poisonous to use as anti-venom. The venom is collected 4 times a month from each snake. We watched them work with a few cobras. It was wild to watch the cobras attempt to strike a cloth the man held in front of the snake.
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