A third option is being farmed for your skin. Crocodiles are widely farmed for their tough and beautifully patterned skin. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Some species are more delicately-skinned than others and used for clothing and designer products – and other skins are thicker and more durable so used for sundries and shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crocodiles prized for their skins need to be kept differently from wild-living individuals to make sure there is no damage to the scutes. The molts also need to be carefully managed to get the best effect on the final product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are also many wild-caught crocodiles around the world used for lower quality goods (including food) but they generally produce less usable skin due to natural damage in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crocodiles have scutes that is similar in appearance to scales – and serve the same function. Scutes are actually horny patches of thickened skin and make the body waterproof to a certain extent . Do Crocodiles Have Scales Or Skin On Their Backs? When you think of an archetypal crocodile – say the American Crocodile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}