Editing Crocodile (section)

===Crocodile products===
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[[File:Crocodile wallets.jpg|thumb|Crocodile leather wallets from a [[Bangkok]] crocodile farm]]
[[File:Teriyaki CrocTail.jpg|thumb|A plate of crocodile meat in [[teriyaki sauce]] in [[Helsinki]], Finland]]
Crocodiles are protected in many parts of the world, but are also farmed commercially. Their hides are tanned and used to make leather goods such as shoes and [[handbag]]s; crocodile meat is also considered a delicacy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/30/us/anahuac-journal-alligator-farmer-feeds-demand-for-all-the-parts.html |title=Anahuac Journal; Alligator Farmer Feeds Demand for All the Parts |work=The New York Times |date=30 November 1998 |last=Lyman |first=Rick |access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> The most commonly farmed species are the saltwater and Nile crocodiles, while a hybrid of the saltwater and the rare [[Siamese crocodile]] is also bred in Asian farms. Farming has resulted in an increase in the saltwater crocodile population in Australia, as eggs are usually harvested from the wild, so landowners have an incentive to conserve their habitat. Crocodile leather can be made into goods such as wallets, briefcases, purses, handbags, belts, hats, and shoes. [[Crocodile oil]] has been used for various purposes.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elisabeth Janos|title=Country Folk Medicine: Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea and Other Old-Time Remedies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUaaDBFsYFEC&pg=PA56|year=2004|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|isbn=978-1-59228-178-7|page=56}}</ref> [[Vietnamese cuisine#Exotic dishes|Crocodiles were eaten by Vietnamese]] while they were taboo and off limits for Chinese. Vietnamese women who married Chinese men adopted the Chinese taboo.<ref name="Peters2012">{{cite book |author=Erica J. Peters |title=Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_P1ig12re4C&pg=PA142 |year=2012 |publisher=Rowman Altamira |isbn=978-0-7591-2075-4 |pages=142–}}</ref>

Crocodile meat is consumed in some countries, such as Australia, [[Ethiopia]], Thailand, South Africa, China, and Cuba (in pickled form). It is also occasionally eaten as an "exotic" delicacy in the western world.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Armstrong| first1=Hilary|title=Best exotic restaurants in London|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/best-exotic-restaurants-in-london-6863561.html|newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]]|access-date=4 September 2016|date=8 April 2009}}</ref> Cuts of meat include backstrap and tail fillet.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Due to high demand for crocodile products, [[Traffic (conservation programme)|TRAFFIC]] states that 1,418,487 Nile Crocodile skins were exported from Africa between 2006 and 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.traffic.org/what-we-do/species/reptiles-and-amphibians/|title=Reptiles and amphibians – Species we work with at TRAFFIC|website=www.traffic.org|access-date=10 January 2019}}</ref>