Smile on the dial of the crocodile

 Meet ‘Stumpy’ the salt-water crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) who thoroughly enjoys the good life with Chris Peberdy’s family at Howard Springs near Darwin N.T. 

She gets to swim in the family pool, wallow in the spa, chomp on chicken wings at barbeques and even pose in wedding photos. A tickle on the neck quickly puts a smile on her dial when you would expect to lose a finger or three.

Chris is a reptile wrangler contracted by the Northern Territory government and has his own theory on Stumpy’s friendly disposition…

“Something has undone millions of years of evolution with this animal.”

…except Chris is forgetting one thing – our Creator God who said to Noah after the Great Flood: “…the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth…”

So will animals always have this fear of man while preying on each other?

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them…” Isaiah 11

So what else puts a smile on the dial of a crocodile? Hatchlings of course!                          

Is there anything we could learn from the crocodile?...like, protecting our children from evil?                                            

Acknowledgements: Ross Bilton, The Weekend Australian Magazine, 30 Nov 2013                                                           

Photo credits:

Stumpy / Nathan Dyer

Hatchling / thesun.co.uk