next to a crocodile pond

[dilermando]

From On His Own | Print Article | Newsweek.com

In the text below, what does "crocodile pond" mean?

"Keep your hands up." Afterward, sipping water from a jug next to a crocodile pond, the stepfather mused about the nature of things, and about what it took to survive in a difficult and dangerous world: "Men take advantage of weakness in other men.

[Anglika]

A pond in which there are crocodiles.