A notorious crocodile farm re-opened amid a tourism revival in Thailand.

The Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo housed more than 60,000 crocodiles and other animals, including tigers, elephants, gibbons, chimpanzees, camels, hippos and fish.

It received several complaints of alleged cruelty, including poorly maintained dirty crocodile pools, while concerned tourists called it out over their animals looking extremely thin before closing down in 2022.

But on April 1, the zoo held a grand reopening, welcoming tourists back into its doors, along with a dinosaur museum.

Footage shows the visitors watching the crocodiles from a walking bridge over an enclosure. There was an animal show and feeding activity where tourists could offer chicken meat tied to a string to the reptiles.

The caretakers also assisted families to go near the crocodiles so they could pose beside the animals for a picture.

The zoo lost a lucrative contract Chinese travel company Trip, then CTrip, in 2019 when they saw a famished Asian black bear trying to escape from its cage in 2019.

After being investigated twice by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation in 2021 and 2022, prompted by dirty ponds and extremely thin tigers, as well as an elephant with an injured leg caused by a chain, the zoo decided to stop operating during the pandemic.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which released videos of the zoo's alleged maltreatment of its animals, said in a statement in 2021 before its closure: 'In 2020, the zoo forced a masked, leashed chimpanzee to ride around on a bike and spray disinfectant in a spectacle to capitalize on the coronavirus crisis.'