Introduction


Greetings everyone! Our team, the Moonwalker are pleased to share this blog with you.

This blog dictates the 14 week journey of the study of a crocodile which is the pet of choice in the subject ENG 61703 Engineering and Biomimetics. The reason we choose this subject is due to our curiosity and interest in learning something different. In accordance to this blog, we would like to thank Dr. Yong Leng Chuan for being the ever understanding lecturer for giving us this opportunity to embrace nature's beauty into our engineering capabilities.
Hope you enjoy browsing through this enjoy as a token of our appreciation.


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