Crocodile facts: chasing chicken
{"Image ImageDescription": "VILLAGERS LIVE AMONGST CROCODILES..****EXCLUSIVE, SPECIAL FEES***....BURKINO FASO: The crocodiles chase a sacrificed chicken.....They are so often the figure of fear and dread but here in one African village the Nile crocodile is revered as a sacred animal. Situated in Burkina Faso, the village of Bazoule is the home of the sacred crocodile , a place where villagers feed chicken to the Nile crocs and children play just metre from their open muzzles. The chief and the Marabou-something like the witch-doctor offers sacrifices: goats, donkeys, dogs and chickens are thrown to them with increasing frequency. At first, the sacrifices are restricted to the Koo LAKRA m, the so-called Feast of the Crocodiles which is held once a year. But when the fame of these sacred animals spread through the region began to reach people in every village to offer sacrifices to the big saurian ask for health, fertility, success or wealth. And every one of them was accompanied by a chicken or a goat. Captured on assignment by photogr", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2012:02:17 02:26:30", "Image ExifOffset": "1200", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1338", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6446", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "500", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "313"}