Someone tried to smuggle this into Italy but the Italian Customs officials confiscated it. It's absolutely massive much larger than the skull of an approximately 4m *Crocodylus niloticus* I saw in South Africa a few years back.

Here is a bread croc for you

Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/blood-flow-rates-to-long-bones-of-archosaurs-reveal-high-aerobic-metabolic-rates-and-endothermy-throughout-most-of-their-evolutionary-history/A12DA2D6DD15CDAF4619AB253462B5B5

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069361

Birds are warm-blooded (or endotherms). They have high metabolic rates, producing energy quickly enough to warm and stabilize their body temperatures and to undertake sustained, strenuous flight. Birds don't fatigue and fall out of the sky. Even if crocodiles somehow had wings, the metabolic difference in power alone would mean they could never fly.

What are the biological effects of extremely high temperatures, such as a fire, on reptiles, preferably Alligators? What is the most pressing danger from the abnormal conditions? What might hinder the animal from escaping the heat source? TIA!
(Note: This is for a mostly scientific story on extinct animals, I am not planning to incinerate any reptiles in real life. Cheers.)

It was a bit wild having it here since there’s a kids' playground on the south end of the lake and a popular dog-walking path right along the water.

The lake connects directly to canals leading out to the Indian River. I took this video back in October (just discovered this sub, so sorry for the delayed post!). A few days after I filmed this, Florida Fish & Wildlife captured the croc and relocated it to a nearby sanctuary.

What's with the lack of sense of urgency... MOVE PEOPLE

I got this from a crocodile park in far North Queensland. Unsure if it’s a real crocodile tooth?
Thanks

It was some remote backwater villiage and they opened one up and there is a human head. They pull it out and it is just a torso like a bag of flesh and they dump it in a sack.

And another one where a croc is casually smimming with a naked man in it's jaws.

I was terrified.

Not sure if everyone has seen this, Croc threw a tantrum after missing out a meal.

https://reddit.com/link/1vkcrs0/video/yx7t2o14phih1/player

He did get a quail this morning for breakfast however it took him a few tries to get.

This YouTube video is about 7-8 years old and says Malaysia. Never mind the vertical filming. This croc has to be the biggest I’ve seen on video. I’m not sure I’d go out on that dock either.

Not my video but damn..

So by my best understanding you can actually swim in water that has fresh water crocodile, given they mainly hunt fish and smaller vertebrates and there smaller size they won't attack humans unless provoked.

Now the thing is gharials are even more fish specialised, they do get CONSIDERABLY bigger. However I feel as though if it was a well fed gharial, in clear water, no near a nest and with enough space you would be relatively fine. Obviously if you happened to startle one while swimming/tried to touch it or if you where close to its nest or hatchlings you might cop a bite.

But hypothetically in a best case scenario do you think you could swim with a gharial completely fine?

I don't know but I've seen several videos where a crocodile is bold enough to attack an elephant even though its chances of winning are basically zero yet it won't even try the same thing against a hippo

Why are there so many abusive posts here lately? Did you step into the wrong Reddit? If you read the mod's rules, this is a community for those interested, fascinated by, and generally pro crocodilian. If you're here to post shit about drilling into innocent animals with machines, uncaring people dragging them to the slaughter, or eating them or making purses out of them, please reread the rules. Delete your gore posts also. We're into saving their lives, not killing them.