page_title: Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra
section_title: Crocodiles At Bhor Saidan
hierarchical_section_title: Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra / Crocodiles At Bhor Saidan
caption_attribution_description: mugger crocodile Crocodylus palustris
context_page_description: The Bhor Saidan Crocodile Breeding Centre is located 22 km from Kurukshetra and 13 km from Thanesar at Bhor Saidan village, also spelled as Bhour Saidan or Bhoor Saiydan, on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road near Bhureeshwar Temple, one of the pilgrimage sites in Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana.
  Bhor Saidan village, sitting on an ancient archeological mound of Painted Grey Ware culture from the Vedic period of Mahabharata, is a tirth in 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra on the banks of dried up river bed of Sarasvati River, was named after Kaurava hero Bhurisrava of Mahabharta, son of Somadutta.
context_section_description: The centre comprises a wild pond that is used to rear Indian Mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus pallustris). The Crocodile Breeding Centre has 10 male, 4 female and 10 young Mugger crocodiles.
caption: Mugger crocodile
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