How Doth the Little Crocodile (Spanish: Cómo hace el pequeño cocodrilo)[a] is both a painting and an outdoor bronze sculpture by British-born Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

[1] The statue was cast around that time and in 2000, it was donated to the government of Mexico City, who installed it in a pond at Chapultepec Park, in the Miguel Hidalgo borough.

Both artworks were inspired by and named after the 1865 poem "How Doth the Little Crocodile", written by Lewis Carroll for his novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

[4] Carrington presented Masri with a representation of How Doth the Little Crocodile, which Masri recalled was "done completely in paper wrapped in cloth",[3] and he added: Curiously [...] after we finished 'Freedom in Bronze' and the exhibition was still on, Leonora called me and invited me for a drink [... At her home], she opened the door to a room I had never been in and I was facing the piece called Crocodile [...] I became very excited because I had not expected it.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, then-head of government, decided to pay homage to Carrington and her contributions to the city, who accepted it as long as it was a small event.