“Truly the world is dark wherever men and women no longer acknowledge
their bond with the Creator and thereby endanger their relation to other
creatures and to Creation itself,” he said in a speech this week.
The future of the Cuban crocodile hangs in the balance – its population has
dropped by 80 per cent and it only survives in a small area of the island.
It is not the first time an exotic animal has been introduced to the Pope.
Three years ago he patted a lion cub after it was presented to him by
performers from a circus.
The feisty cub was shown to the Pope by Martin Lacey Junior, an award-winning
British lion tamer, during a general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.
It greeted him with a roar, to the amusement of the Vatican audience.
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