The crocodile shocked zoo visitors with its abnormal thinness – photo

Zoo officials responded to allegations of abuse.

China's Guangzhou Zoo has been embroiled in a scandal after videos of a shockingly thin crocodile kept there appeared on the Internet.

Oddity Central writes about it.

Photos and videos of a crocodile so emaciated that you can literally see its spine and count its ribs have circulated on Chinese social media and sparked a heated debate over the treatment of the animals.

The reptile reportedly looks more like a fossil than a living animal, but one of the videos shows it moving slowly in its enclosure. The person who took the video and posted it online expressed concern about the crocodile's fate, and many accused the zoo of animal cruelty for either starving it or simply ignoring it…