Muja (alligator)

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Muja in the Belgrade Zoo, 2010
Information board with a declaration of respect and rules of conduct for visitors in Serbian and English

Muja (* before 1937 ) is the oldest living Mississippi alligator in the world.

According to information from the Belgrade Zoo, where he lives, Muja arrived at the zoo with his partner on August 9, 1937 (Berlin is occasionally given, as is the day of arrival on September 12, 1936). He is over 83 years old because he was already an adult when he arrived in Belgrade. Maybe he was already 10 years old. In any case, since 2007, when an even older alligator named Čabulītis died in Riga , it has been the oldest crocodile in the world. Muja survived both the German bombing of the Belgrade Zoo in 1941 and the Allied bombing in 1944. The female died in the 1960s when one of the guards accidentally let hot water in the pool. In 1999, Muja also experienced the bombing by Allied forces during the war in Yugoslavia

In 2012, part of his right forefoot had to be amputated as a result of gangrene , previously known as gangrene . His ability to walk is not restricted after the laborious operation. On April 18, 2016, he received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest crocodile living in captivity. At that time he was at least 78 years and 219 days old, according to information provided there.

literature

  • Kent A. Vliet: Alligators. The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, p. 213.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Kent A. Vliet: Alligators. The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, p. 213.
  2. ↑ Z. Lazarević: Najstariji aligator na svetu živi u Beogradu (meaning: The oldest alligator in the world lives in Belgrade ), in: Blic, August 22, 2011 (archive.org, August 18, 2018).
  3. ↑ Guinness World Records 2017 , 2017, p. 53.