Many Hong Kong residents on Monday expressed their wish for a Siamese crocodile caught over the weekend to be housed at the Wetland Park rather than tourist attraction Ocean Park, while authorities examined the reptile.

Visitors viewing saltwater crocodile Pui Pui at its home in the Hong Kong Wetland Park told the Post they wished for the recent catch on Sunday to also feature at the Tin Shui Wai park. They said the facility had suitable resources to accommodate another crocodile.

“If I were Pui Pui, I would feel bored as there’s no company,” nine-year-old Alvin Lee Long-kiu said as he gazed into the enclosure housing the lethargic crocodile, aged 20 to 23. Lee added he preferred to visit the latest catch at the Wetland Park alongside Pui Pui rather than in Ocean Park, which he said was crowded with exhibits.