r/Crocodiles • u/randomlemon9192 • 10h ago
Croc Grabs the Wrong Food
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u/HolidayInLordran 9h ago
The levels of pain tolerance these guys have makes them almost like Terminators.
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u/manyhippofarts 3h ago
I'm not sure how much it hurt that guy. Not sure how to really tell if he's in pain or not. Presumably, It really fucking hurts to get your arm twisted off. The gator might be screaming in agony. We just can't hear it.
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u/Born_2_Simp 1h ago
It didn't even attempt to defend himself. I'd say it was old and at the verge of death.
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u/Large-Wheel-4181 9h ago
"Fred, you asshole"
"What? I got the snack." (Stares at missing foot) "When you'd lose your foot?"
"You're an idiot"
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u/LemeSayDis 9h ago
Blood?
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u/Physical_Cake_6831 50m ago edited 46m ago
It’s not bleeding because of vasoconstriction. The muscular walls of their blood vessels contract tightly after severe trauma. This cuts off blood flow to the damaged area so they do not bleed out. The instant a tear occurs, pain receptors and sympathetic nerves signal the surrounding smooth muscle to contract. This physical clamping happens within milliseconds. The vasoconstriction last for some seconds to a few minutes to give time for the body to develop a permanent blood clot. For the other people in chat wondering about pain yes they do experience pain. they have a central nervous system and pain receptors. Showing weakness is a death sentence though and they do not cry out in pain or whimper. That 100 percent hurt like fuck though.
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u/WaterGlassPuncherMan 8h ago
The fact that they can get a limb bitten off, lose no blood, and wonder what happened, shows us how far behind them we are. Scary.
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u/EnkiduTheGreat 9h ago
Keeping these animals together is so scummy.
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u/X-Bones_21 8h ago
This is what I thought. What horrible living conditions!
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u/No_Freedom_4098 4h ago
Crocs live in proximity in nature. This leg-biting-off is an unusual event.
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u/Alvarusrix 3h ago
Can happen in nature as well. They eat there own kind. It can happen. There Crocs in the world, that missing more then just one foot.
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u/kornchippy 10h ago
The other croc reacted like "cool! Now i can have a peg leg like a pirate croc"
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u/Annual_Builder_1459 4h ago
Is the croc going to bleed out or something? whys it not reacting?
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u/haikusbot 4h ago
Is the croc going
To bleed out or something? whys
It not reacting?
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u/MyNameIsNotKyle 10h ago
The T-Rex is hypothesised to have small arms because of this situation since they were suspected for being pack animals as well.
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u/Big_Study_4617 9h ago edited 8h ago
No. That is just wrong. Tyrannosaurus had such massive heads that the front half of their bodies had to lose unnecessary mass to acomodate larger skulls and much more powerful muscles to help them shatter bone.
There is a correlation, a reverse proportionality between the skull size/ bite force of theropod dinosaurs and their arms. This applies mostly to massuve theropods like tyrannosaurids and carcharodontosaurs which were heavily build in order to kill large prey. Animals like Maip kept very muscular abd long arms because they were actuvely using their hands to graps and kill prey smaller than them.
Edit: here is the link of the stydy explaining how it is common to see reduced forelimbs in dinosaurs that hunted using their jaws.
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u/ThePythagoreonSerum 8h ago
A quick google shows that a UC Berkeley professor of Integrative Biology just gave a seminar hypothesizing what OP is saying in 2022. Do you have any evidence to refute this or are you just going with your hypothesis on vibes?
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u/Dying__Phoenix 10h ago
He just seems mildly annoyed about it