ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月18日 03時20分

Recently, 2 scientists traveled to East Timor to investigate what has become a national mystery: Why are so many Timorese being killed by crocodiles? The attacks have increased 20-fold in the past decade, numbering at least one death a month in a country of 1.2 million people. But the people of East Timor have for centuries revered and even worshiped crocodiles, and they believe the killers must be migrant crocodiles from Australia. “The people believe that these crocs are our ancestors, and ancestors don’t go attacking people,” one official said. “Our grandparents don’t kill us.” To test the theory, the scientists had to collect DNA samples from a number of crocodiles. For obvious reasons, swabbing the inside of a crocodile’s cheek is not an option. Instead, they had to penetrate the crocs’ leathery hides using a needle attached to a 12-foot-long aluminum rod, known as a biopsy pole. Read more at the link in our bio. @mattabbottphoto shot this photo.

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