A visitor to an aquarium in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk attempted to take what she felt would be a very dramatic shot of Gena, a croc on display, and ended up dropping her phone into the animal's mouth.

According to vets at the aquarium, Gena is now not doing well refusing food and acting listless:

The mishap has caused bigger problems for the crocodile, which has not eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain.

"The animal is not feeling well," said Alexandra. "His behavior has changed, he moves very little and swims much less than he used to."

Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but while Gena smothered one bird, he didn't eat it.

He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader in the group. Crocodiles can live up to 100 years.

I will remain hopeful, having done enough rescue work and seeing the wide variety of items American Alligators of much smaller size have vomited up after a period of time, that this, too, will pass. So to speak.

The most amusing part to me is what the owner of the phone did: she blamed the entire incident on the zoo!

Maybe I wasn't careful with it but, I think that zoo managers should think about human mistakes.

She is also hoping to get her SIM card returned because it holds her contacts and photos. So the moral of the story is, if you're going to drop your phone in a croc's mouth, be sure to back it up first!

Video after the jump.