{"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":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The famed vegetarian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/babiya-keralas-vegetarian-crocodile-of-ananthapura-lake-temple-dies\/article65991484.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crocodile named Babiya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A number of media outlets including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9UNUt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/q8XKe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good News Today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/yJhfS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Economic Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/d7faa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pune Mirror<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/d5rXf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NDTV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/c0l7z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dainik Bhaskar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/gpiKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/C7Hvz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News18<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/i4jrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABP News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iT4bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Navbharat Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/qbYqv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zee Malayalam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5LW4C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABN Telugu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/YaAVp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samayam Telugu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/kndek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Newsroom Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/AANkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sambad English<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shared the same image in their coverage of the incident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery 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found the source photo in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/F4mTx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Times of India article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 2017. In this report also, the crocodile seen in the viral picture has been identified as Babiya from the Ananthapura Lake Temple. However, in the article&#8217;s comments section, a user mentioned that the photo of the man with the crocodile is not from Kerala, but from Costa Rica. Along with this, the user also added that the name of the man and the crocodile seen in the picture is Chito and Pocho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/image-12.png?resize=810%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using this information, we performed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=chito+pocho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">keyword search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on YouTube. This led us to a related video uploaded on YouTube on May 16, 2019. In this video, footage resembling the viral image appears at the 20:56 mark. In fact, this is the screengrab being circulated as a photo of Babiya the crocodile living at the Ananthapura Lake Temple in Kerala. Evidently, the viral picture is not from Kerala but from Costa Rica, a country located in the Caribbean region of Central America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4XL1aesudG4?start=1254]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, we performed keyword searches related to Chito and Pocho. Alt News found that Chito&#8217;s full name is Gilberto Shedden alias Chito. American media outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/02\/28\/283934611\/chito-and-pocho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Public Radio (NPR)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s website contains a transcript of Gilberto Shedden&#8217;s (Chito\u2019s) interview in which he discusses Pocho the crocodile. According to a report by Costa Rican media outlet &#8216;The Tico Times&#8217;, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ticotimes.net\/2011\/10\/12\/world-famous-crocodile-pocho-dies-in-siquirres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pocho died<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> back in October 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two documentaries based on Chito and Pocho&#8217;s friendship were released in 2013 and 2014, titled &#8216;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt6232316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Touching the Dragon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; and &#8216;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt12255646\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dragon Feast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216; respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Poncho died in 2011, Alt News can confirm that the viral image cannot possibly be of the crocodile living at a temple in Kerala. In fact, this photograph is at least 11 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed vegetarian crocodile named Babiya, 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. 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