This "Mysterious Creature" Had Zoo Officials Baffled. It Turned Out To Be...

Zoo authorities deployed a team of investigators to identify the creature and found what it was.

Officials at a zoo in the United Kingdom were recently baffled by a “mysterious creature” that they found swimming inside the banded mongoose enclosure. The Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo in Kilgetty, Wales, said that the weird creature was first spotted by a guest over the weekend who alerted the zookeepers. The zoo said that this creature “had us all scratching our heads”. A hunt then began to identify the creature lying in the enclosure. “Was it a miniature Loch Ness Monster? A mysterious water lizard,” the zoo asked in a viral Facebook post. The Loch Ness Monster, as per legend, inhabits the Loch Ness lake in Scotland. 

So what did the zoo do? Authorities deployed a team of investigators to identify the creature. They probed. And, found that it was nothing but a toy crocodile that someone had dropped in the pond. The zoo said their officials “breathed a little sigh of relief” after they came to know that it was only a toy crocodile. “But it did give us all a laugh this grey Monday morning,” it added.

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