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Crocodile attack. A large adult American alligator. Crocodile attacks on humans are common in places where large crocodilians are native to human populations. Some 1,000 people are killed by crocodilians each year, [1] with attacks occurring most frequently in the Southern US states and Australia. [2]
June 14, 2016. Lane Graves, 2, male. Florida — An alligator, 4 to 7 feet long, dragged the victim under water in the Seven Seas Lagoon about 9:00 p.m. on June 14, 2016, at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa just outside of Orlando. His parents tried to rescue him; the father was attacked by a second alligator.
The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas, with populations present from South Florida, the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, [4] and the coasts of Mexico to as far south as Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
American crocodiles have been known to attack, and even kill, humans and domestic animals that drink at the water's edge. [12] From 1995 to 2017, 36 attacks were reported in Cancún, Mexico, with many incidents resulting from poor judgment by tourists or intoxicated individuals. [13]
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator, or common alligator is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico. It is one of the two extant species in the genus Alligator, and is larger than the only other living alligator species, the ...
Less consistent differences: Crocodiles are generally thought of as more aggressive than alligators. [61] Only six of the 23 crocodilian species are considered dangerous to adult human beings, most notably the Nile crocodile and saltwater crocodile. Each year, hundreds of deadly attacks are attributed to the Nile crocodile in sub-Saharan Africa.
Osteolaeminae. Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family ...
Category. : Crocodilian attacks. The order Crocodilia includes the 18 species of true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the two species of alligators, caimans (family Alligatoridae), gharials and false gharials (family Gavialidae).