Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)

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Male over 4 meters long in Hato El Frio, Apure, Venezuela 

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@epaiva can you tell from looking at the snout width (or any other feature) whether this Orinoco crocodile is male of female? Reply

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(11-03-2023, 05:08 AM)KRA123 Wrote:

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@epaiva can you tell from looking at the snout width (or any other feature) whether this Orinoco crocodile is male of female?

Normally females are slender and their skull are more fínese, males have broader larger skulls like almost all crocodilians species. Big males are very wary of humans normally when they spot you they go away. Reply

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(11-03-2023, 01:14 AM)KRA123 Wrote: @epaiva do you have any photos of large male orinoco crocodiles taken from above, and/or in profile view? I am trying to make some comaprisons.

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(12-01-2018, 02:48 AM)epaiva Wrote: Largest Orinoco Crocodile skull in Venezuelan museums in Museo de Estación Biológica Rancho Grande, Maracay, Venezuela. It measured 68,9 centimeters long and 31,5 centimeters wide.
Crocodile expert Mr Andrés Eloy Seijas holding the skull and picture 2 courtesy of Mr Arnaldo Ferrer

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Largest Orinoco Crocodile skull in Venezuelan Collections Reply

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(01-14-2021, 12:19 AM)epaiva Wrote: Skull of large male in Hotel Orinoco, Puerto Carreño (Vichada) Colombia. It measures 68 centimeters long.
Book Historia natural y conservación del Caiman llanero (Crocodylus internedius) en Colombia 

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Largest Orinoco Crocodile skull in Colombian Collections Reply

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(11-03-2023, 06:26 AM)epaiva Wrote:

(11-03-2023, 05:08 AM)KRA123 Wrote:

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@epaiva can you tell from looking at the snout width (or any other feature) whether this Orinoco crocodile is male of female?

Normally females are slender and their skull are more fínese, males have broader larger skulls like almost all crocodilians species. Big males are very wary of humans normally when they spot you they go away.

That's what I thought; so it's probably male then. I thought it might be a girthy female because of how narrow the snout is, but I guess even mature males of C. intermedius can have snouts this narrow Reply

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Some large looking Orinoco Crocodiles

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Orinoco Crocodile skull 

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Largest Orinoco Crocodile in record  5 m or a little over, Hato El Frío, Apure, Venezuela,  2014 Reply

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Quote:Simón is one of the largest living crocodile specimens from Orinoco, almost 5 meters long and lives at the Zoocriadero El Patrullero de Chávez in Puerto Miranda in the state of Guarico in Venezuela.

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Huge Orinoco Crocodile named Pepe in Puerto Miranda, Estado Guarico, Vehezuela. Credit to Jose Ramos

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Huge male Orinoco Crocodile called Juancito in Puerto Miranda, Guarico, Venezuela. Credit to Jose Ramos 

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Quote:The largest crocodile in the Orinoco was a specimen captured in October 2000 near the city of Pariaguán in Venezuela, known as El Monstruo or Caiman Pariaguán, according to several scientific articles, was between 4.50 and 4.80 meters long and weighed 1100 pounds.

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Quote:The heaviest Orinoco crocodile was a specimen measuring 4.80 meters long and weighing 670 kg captured in Colombia.

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