Expedition guide and lecturer, Dr. Jacqueline Windh, was confronted with an unusual offer on her recent visit to Papua New Guinea’s remote Sepik River region.
“You want to buy?”
The man curled his fingers around the croc’s snout and thrust the animal towards me. His friend’s black eyes glimmered with shy hopefulness as he held up its tail. The croc’s body hung between them, the pale yellow scales of its belly shifting and gliding as it slowly writhed and curved its spine.
