1. CAPTIVE BREEDING AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ADULT CROCODILES
1.1.1 Thailand
1.1.2 U.S.A.
1.1.3 Papua New Guinea
1.1.4 India
1.1.5 Africa
1.2 Nutrition and Fertility
1.3 Some Conclusions on Captive Breeding
1.4 Handling Large Crocodiles
1.4.1 Immobilization
1.4.2 Recovery and the Use of Antidotes
1.4.3 Administration of the Drugs, Handling and Aftercare
1.4.4 Anesthesia
2.1 Cold
2.2 Poor Sanitation
2.3 Nutritional Problems
2.3.1 Starvation and Blood Sugar Levels
2.3.2 Gout
2.3.3 Metabolic Bone Disease
2.3.4 Steatitis or Yellow Fat Disease
2.3.5 Thiamine Deficiency
2.4 Stress
2.5 Infectious Diseases
3.1 Skin Terminology
3.2 Crocodile Sizes and Shapes
3.3 Capture and Slaughter
3.4 Skinning
3.4.1 Opening cuts (belly skin)
3.4.2 Skin Removal
3.4.3 Cleaning and Salting the Skin
3.5 Measuring, Grading and Preserving
3.5.1 Measuring
3.5.2 Grading
3.5.3 Preserving and Packing
3.5.4 Choice of Preservative and Alternative Methods of Storage
3.5.5 Hornback Skins
4.1 Meat
4.2 Other By-Products
5.1.1 Soaking
5.1.2 Green Fleshing
5.1.3 Liming
5.1.4 De-liming
5.1.5 Bating
5.1.6 Bleaching
5.1.7 Pickling
5.2 Tanning, Dying and Finishing
5.2.1 Tanning
5.2.2 Shaving
5.2.3 Neutralising
5.2.4 Retannage
5.2.5 Fatliquoring
5.2.6 Drying
5.2.7 Dying
5.2.8 Finishing
6. ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS, PRODUCTION AND MARKETING
6.1 Production
6.3 Wildlife Conservation and International Trade
Appendix 1 Vitamin Premix Used for Alligators at
the Rockefeller Refuge, Louisiana
Appendix 2 Extracts from the Japanese Reptile Association
Standards for Grading Wet Salted Crocodile Skins
Appendix 3 References Cited
