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Crocodile, the killler of water
Crocodile, the killler of water
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Crocodile, the killler of water
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Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)
All crocodile species are canibals feeding on others crocodiles as can be seen in the first picture, in second picture the big Nile crocodile is eating a Zebra it captured the day before. credit to @jens_cullmann  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Stephanie Marie Photography.
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Caiman crocodilus in the Venezuelan Llanos, they are very important predators controlling the number of Piranhas, they eat a large number of Piranhas during the dry season.
Credit to @ferjflores  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Graeme Mitchley
Thick dragon.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Reptile Hunter FB page.
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Credits to Latest Sightings.
Battle Between Giraffe and Crocodile: This dramatic footage of a giraffe and a crocodile battling it out was captured by freelance field guide Mario Paul, who was guiding for Vula Tours.  *This image is copyright of its original author Mario tells LatestSightings.com the story: “I was guiding a tour for Vula Tours on this day. We had just left our breakfast stop at 10am and were heading up the H4-1 in the hope of finding a leopard!"  *This image is copyright of its original author "About 1.5km’s from Lower Sabie I spotted a herd of giraffes on the other side of the river staring down into the riverbed. Experience immediately told me that there must be some sort of predator in the vicinity."  *This image is copyright of its original author "We stopped and searched without luck. I then decided to go into the little loop and that is where I spotted a giraffe lying flat on the sand. This puzzled me as I could not see any predators around." "The giraffe then sat up and I simply thought that he might have had bit of a stumble or slipped and fallen down. What happened next I would have never been able to predict."  *This image is copyright of its original author "The giraffe tried to stand up and pulled into view a monster crocodile that was latched to his leg. This croc must have been 4 to 5m long. The giraffe was not able to get up on his feet and crashed down to the ground, probably due to the heaviness of the croc. A croc this size could easily weigh close to a ton."  *This image is copyright of its original author "The giraffe repeatedly tried to stand up, each time pulling this enormous croc up into the air. We sat there for over an hour, hoping the giraffe would somehow manage to escape the jaws of this giant croc." "Every time the giraffe tried to get up my guests and I started tried to encourage the giraffe in the hope that it might help, but, every time we were met by the crushing fall of this unfortunate giraffe (yes I know it’s not the right thing to do but in this situation everybody rooted for this poor giraffe and nobody could help themselves)."  *This image is copyright of its original author "We could hear how he was falling down and we could feel his suffering and helplessness. It was extremely traumatic for us and we decided to leave the sighting after an hour as we could not bear to watch this poor giraffe suffer any longer." "An hour later we had to go past again and the poor giraffe was still trying desperately to get up, he was clearly exhausted and we could see that this crocodile was not going to let go. The giraffe's leg must have been so damaged already that I knew there and then that he was not going to make it." "At around 13:30 we heard that the croc had let go and returned to the water and was lying and just watching the giraffe. The giraffe apparently tried to get up several more times but his leg was badly broken and he was completely exhausted and thus was unable to do so." "For the rest of the afternoon, not much happened. By the next day, the resident pride of lions had come across the giraffe and finished it off."  *This image is copyright of its original author "Looking at what happened here one cannot help but feel sorry for the poor giraffe but one cannot look past what we had witnessed. The crocodile held on to the giraffe for more than 3.5 hours whilst it was trying its best to escape. Then for a croc to take on something that big is unheard of, never mind actually managing to finish the kill."  *This image is copyright of its original author "This was very traumatic to watch and for some of my guests it was just too much and they couldn’t stop their tears. I know it's nature and I have seen many kills in my guiding career, but never has one touched me as deeply as this one." "It was very difficult to remain impartial, even though I knew this is nature. I also had very mixed emotions, on the one side I felt for the giraffe, but on the other side, I knew I was witnessing something that has probably never been recorded. That is nature for you!"  *This image is copyright of its original author The video: (02-27-2018, 08:44 PM)Tshokwane Wrote: Credits to Latest Sightings.Incredible pictures and video it is a huge crocodile because a big Giraffe weights over 1000 kilograms, it must be at least 5 meters long and weight close to 1 ton. 
Nile crocodile swallowed a hyena
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Just arrived with my wife from crocodile safari in Costa Rica, Palo Verde national park. We took a boat on the local river. For couple of hours saw at least 25-30 American crocodiles with average size 1,5-2 meters, most of them were in the water and 5-6 on land. When crocodiles are in the water they sink when boat approach about 20-30 meters to them but if they are beaching you can approach even 4 to 6 m before they become really nervous. Here we post on youtube short 12 seconds amateur video with crocodile only 3 meters from our boat:
Unfortunately I dont have computer skills to post any images. In wikipedia curiously is written that despite Cuban crocodile is smaller than American its actually more agressive: "in areas where the two species coexist, the smaller but more aggressive Cuban crocodile is behaviorally dominant over the larger American crocodile". |
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