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Janaki Lenin is a conservationist, writer, editor and documentary makerbased in Tamil Nadu. She has published two books 'A King Cobra's Summer' and 'My Husband and Other Animals' which is a collection of articles from her popular column in The Hindu.
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- It looks different from other crocodiles In having ___________ snout and __________ jaws.
- Male gharials grow, at the end of the snout, _________ through which they prioduce _______.
- The male gharial also uses the snouts to prouce _________.
- Unlike other female crocodiles which have to carry ___________ from the nest to the water, a female gharial just puts her babies outside the nest and moves towards the river. The babies ___________.
- Unlike other crocodiles which live in ______________ , gharials live in ___________, eating only _______________.
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- a long, slim
- an appendage grow and makes noise that carries across the water
- a jaw clap
- their young, follow her like ducklings
- ponds and lakes, rivers, fish
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The territory-holder surges forward, churning the water into froth with his tail.
- What or who is being talked about?
- What does he surge forward towards? With what intention?
- What are the two possible results?
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What were Whitaker and his team going to do with the eggs? Why? (para 3)
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Was their work part of a larger project? What project? What made it necessary? (paras 12 and 13)
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Did Whitaker and his team succeed in breeding a large number of gharials in captivity?
Was their project a success or a failure? What made it so? (paras 13 and 14)
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