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Crocodile swallows mobile phone

The crocodile in "Peter Pan" happily went "tick-tock" after swallowing an alarm clock but a crocodile in Ukraine has been a little less fortunate after swallowing in a mobile phone.

8:29PM GMT 21 Jan 2011

Gena, a 14-year-old crocodile at an aquarium in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, has been refusing food and acting listless after eating a phone dropped by a woman as she tried to photograph him.

Aquarium workers initially did not believe Rimma Golovk when she complained that the crocodile had swallowed her phone.

"But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said Alexandra, an employee who declined to give her last name said.

Miss Golovko admits the accident was her fault. She stretched out her arm to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth and dropped her Nokia phone into the water.

"This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said.

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The mishap has caused bigger problems for the crocodile, which has not eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.

"The animal is not feeling well," said Alexandra. "His behaviour has changed, he moves very little and swims much less than he used to."

Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but while Gena smothered one bird, he did not eat it.

He also refuses to play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader in the group. Crocodiles can live up to 100 years.

"He is the biggest and the oldest, perhaps he went for the phone to protect his group," Alexandra said.

Oleksandr Shushlenko, Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian, said the crocodile will be taken for an X-ray next week if he continues to refuse food.

Surgically removing the phone would be a measure of last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets.

"Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Mr Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals."

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