The Stuffed Crocodile The stuffed crocodile in the Darwin museum is the size of an automobile, one able to carry two rows of passengers, and it is armour-plated, equipped with dagger-shaped teeth, and yet in its lifetime it was known by an amiable nickname, as if it were some kindly uncle and not a monster that was known to attack fishermen in their boats. In death   it is preserved in all its awe-inspiring bulk, along with birds and lizards, and souvenirs of the cyclone that swept the whole city away. Most of Darwin, now, is new, as if purpose-built…