Creation Moments

Guest (Male): Discover true crocodile love. Stay tuned for today's Creation Moment.

And now here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian Taylor: You might not think of the crocodile as a particularly loving creature. In reality, the crocodile is one of the most gentle and loving of parents. Mama crocodile lays about 40 to 80 eggs in a large nest. For the 90 days that they take to hatch, she will keep close watch over them, even foregoing food so as not to leave the nest unattended. Even the father stays close to guard the eggs that are a delicacy to many animals.

At the end of this three-month watch, the babies begin to chirp from within their eggs. Before long, there may be dozens of babies chirping from the nest of buried eggs. This brings the mother, who carefully uncovers the eggs one at a time. The young are only nine inches long and weigh but four ounces. Yet, gentle and loving mother picks up each one and, with a flip of her head, places them in a special pouch in her mouth.

When some of the young have trouble breaking out of their shell, Mama picks up the eggs and delicately works the eggs inside her mouth with her tongue, freeing the imprisoned baby. Once collected, all the young are taken to a specially protected nursery where they will be just as carefully tended for months.

Most amazing is that should the mother not be present to tend the hatching chores, the father offers the hatchlings the very same help and care. God loves even the crocodile, and his acceptance of you and me because of what Jesus Christ has done for us is an even greater wonder than the loving crocodile.

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