Preposterous Pets: Hand Feeding Deadly Crocs

Preposterous Pets: Hand Feeding Deadly Crocs

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A tour guide who hand-feeds giant crocodiles is passing on his death-defying skills to his teenage daughter. Jason Vargas Aguero, 36, wows tourists by dropping meals into the predator's gaping jaws with his hands just inches away. Now he is teaching 13-year-old daughter Jimena Vargas the basics. He said: "I am only giving her some advice so that if one day she wants to do it, she will know how. I've explained a lot to her and told her she has to know their behaviour, to respect them and to be very, very careful." Jason and his family have run the Crocodile Man Tour for the last 15 years and the business has helped bring them out of poverty. The trips run along a 4km stretch of the Tárcoles River in Costa Rica where thousands of American crocodiles live and breed. They are among the biggest reptiles in the world and can grow up to 17ft long and weigh just under 2000lb. Jason's is one of several stories which appears in new Animal Planet series' Preposterous Pets, which starts on Thursday April 3 at 8pm.

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