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Crocs Out To Get You in Stuttgart

Stuttgart's Wilhelma Zoo, the biggest combined zoo and garden in Europe, has a somber message at the top of its website these days:

Dear Wilhelma visitor,
the new crocodile hall is open.

There's no link to the crocodile hall, not even a grizzly picture, but our curiosity is definitely aroused. And in fact the homepage is pretty neat, customizing itself to fit the season--if you log on during winter, for example, it'll show you big tips for how to enjoy a trip to the Wilhelma that avoids the cold weather, following an as-much-as-possible indoors route.

If you make it to Stuttgart in real life (not just cyberlife), you'll have the chance to see a whole host of unusual creatures, including the rare Somali wild ass, species of antelope including bongos, and some babirusas from Sulawesi which even the zoo itself advertises as being strange-looking. Nothing beats that wombat Down Under yet, but at least the Wilhelma is in the northern hemisphere so you can get your weird animal fix without such a long flight.

[Photo: braunjaguar]

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