{"id":132913,"date":"2022-10-13T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=132913"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:53:52","slug":"media-outlets-published-an-old-image-of-crocodile-as-kerala-kasaragod-lake-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/media-outlets-published-an-old-image-of-crocodile-as-kerala-kasaragod-lake-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Media outlets air old image of a crocodile from Costa Rica as Babiya from Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"

The famed vegetarian <\/span>crocodile named Babiya<\/span><\/a>, living at the Ananthapura Lake Temple, recently passed away in Kerala\u2019s Kasaragod district. Several news organizations reported the news carrying a picture of a man resting his head against a crocodile. It is being claimed that this is a photograph of the recently deceased crocodile Babiya, guardian of the Ananthapura Lake Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

A number of media outlets including <\/span>Republic<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Good News Today<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Economic Times<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Pune Mirror<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>NDTV<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Dainik Bhaskar<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>News18<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>ABP News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Navbharat Times<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Zee Malayalam<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>ABN Telugu<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Samayam Telugu<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Newsroom Post<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Sambad English<\/span><\/a> shared the same image in their coverage of the incident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n