Not ' Crocodile tears', its tears for Crocodile.
Source: AFP We all heard about 'crocodile tears' which means to show or create fake sympathy towards anything. However Babiya, a 75 year old crocodile's nature proved this phrase wrong. Babiya is a vegetarian crocodile who lived at Kerala's Anandapadmanabha Swamy temple. The locals believe that babiya was a divine soul believed to guard the cave into which the lord disappeared. Unfortunately when this pure soul Babiya died on October 9th, every devotee and temple officials were disheartened. She might be a mere crocodile but her nature has resulted in what we can say- 'tears for a crocodile'. Nobody knew how she came in the pond since there were no other ponds or rivers nearby. Babiya had became one of the main attractions of this temple as people believed her to be the messenger of Lord Padmanabha himself which was around 46km from Mangaluru. The crocodiles here are believed to be divine because if one crocodile dies, then mysteriously another one...