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By Zahra Khaliq Police were left in stitches after rushing to reports of a crocodile on the loose in a British town – only to find a plastic children’s toy on arrival. Armed with all their specialist gear, including a catch pole to tackle the scaly visitor, the officers rushed to a stream where the animal was reportedly spotted. Outside of zoos, there are no natural crocodiles in Europe because the climate here is too cold for them. The UK’s temperature and ecosystems are generally not suitable to the natural habitat crocodiles need to survive, grow, and reproduce. They instead require warm, t…

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