On February 11, 2018 Tex went with Mr. and Mrs. Normann-Petersen to visit Houston’s only reptile zoo, the Crocodile Encounter. Tex, Mr. and Mrs. Normann-Petersen had adventure learning about alligators, crocodiles, and capybara, and celebrating their nephew, Connor’s Birthday. Tex and Mrs. Normann-Petersen answered together the following questions:
1. Where is Tex? Tex is on an adventure with Mr. and Mrs. Normann-Petersen learning about alligators, crocodiles, and capybaras at the Crocodile Encounter.
What is the geography like there? Crocodile Encounter is located in Angleton, TX which is a city and the county seat of Brazoria County. Brazoria County lies in the southeastern part of Texas near the Gulf of Mexico and is within the Woodlands, Houston, and Sugar Land metropolitan area. Angleton is located at the intersection of State Highway 288, State Highway 25, and the Union Pacific Railroad.
What are typical foods that are eaten there? What type of foods do you and family and friends like to eat? Our tour guide told us that visitors should not eat food during the tour of Crocodile Encounter because you will be too busy learning about the reptiles. But the tour guide did share with Tex and the other visitors that after they were finished then could enjoy cake with the Birthday Boy! Alligators and crocodiles are carnivores and they typically will eat fish, insects, snails, crustaceans, worms, alligator gar, turtles, and various mammals, particularly nutria and muskrat, as well as birds, buffalo, wild boar, deer, and other reptiles. The pigs are omnivores like people, but the pigs eat bugs, vegetables, and fruit. The tortoises eat a wide variety of plants including vegetables, flowers, berries, and grasses.
What is the geography like there? Crocodile Encounter is located in Angleton, TX which is a city and the county seat of Brazoria County. Brazoria County lies in the southeastern part of Texas near the Gulf of Mexico and is within the Woodlands, Houston, and Sugar Land metropolitan area. Angleton is located at the intersection of State Highway 288, State Highway 25, and the Union Pacific Railroad.
What are typical foods that are eaten there? What type of foods do you and family and friends like to eat? Our tour guide told us that visitors should not eat food during the tour of Crocodile Encounter because you will be too busy learning about the reptiles. But the tour guide did share with Tex and the other visitors that after they were finished then could enjoy cake with the Birthday Boy! Alligators and crocodiles are carnivores and they typically will eat fish, insects, snails, crustaceans, worms, alligator gar, turtles, and various mammals, particularly nutria and muskrat, as well as birds, buffalo, wild boar, deer, and other reptiles. The pigs are omnivores like people, but the pigs eat bugs, vegetables, and fruit. The tortoises eat a wide variety of plants including vegetables, flowers, berries, and grasses.
When Tex asked the tour guide what did the alligators and crocodiles eat at the Crocodile Encounter. The tour guide said that they eat mainly raw chicken parts.
What types of jobs are there? At the Crocodile Encounter the types of jobs are the owner, the tour guides, and the zoo-keepers who take care of the animals and reptiles that live there
What are the popular sports or games played there? What popular sports or games interest you, your family, and your friends? The people that work at Crocodile Encounter and the visitors who come to learn about the reptiles enjoy participating in all types of sports from swimming to basketball, soccer, and football. They also enjoy rooting the hometown favorites: the Houston Astros, and the Sugar Land Skeeters, the Houston Rockets, the Houston Texans, and the Houston Dynamo.
Tex, can you include any pictures of yourself and surrounding area and/or landmarks? Please see the pictures below of Tex at the Crocodile Encounter.
What types of jobs are there? At the Crocodile Encounter the types of jobs are the owner, the tour guides, and the zoo-keepers who take care of the animals and reptiles that live there
What are the popular sports or games played there? What popular sports or games interest you, your family, and your friends? The people that work at Crocodile Encounter and the visitors who come to learn about the reptiles enjoy participating in all types of sports from swimming to basketball, soccer, and football. They also enjoy rooting the hometown favorites: the Houston Astros, and the Sugar Land Skeeters, the Houston Rockets, the Houston Texans, and the Houston Dynamo.
Tex, can you include any pictures of yourself and surrounding area and/or landmarks? Please see the pictures below of Tex at the Crocodile Encounter.
Here is Tex at the start of the tour at Crocodile Encounter.
Here is Tex with the Farm Pigs and the Potbelly Pigs. Tex liked the Potbelly Pigs the best!
After Tex watched the pigs he got see some elliptical waterbucks, which are mammals that are related to the deer.
Finally after the tortoises, the pigs, and the elliptical waterbucks, Tex and the other guests on the tour got to meet the Alligators and Crocodiles. Here are a few pictures. The first four pictures are of Sultan, an alligator. The last pictures of a Nile Crocodile.
The Nile Crocodile
After the tour everyone enjoyed cake and wished Connor a Happy Birthday and took pictures with each other. Here is Connor and Riley with Mr. and Mrs. Normann-Petersen and Tex.
For more information on the Crocodile Encounter please contact the staff at the information below:
Crocodile Encounter
23231 CR 48
Angleton, TX 77515
281-595-2232
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