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For example, the behaviour of crocodiles "is constructed in interaction, both between people and crocodiles, and among people"; [5] markedly different results depended on "institutional arrangements and attitudes towards sharing a dam with crocodiles" in different villages in Benin, where knowledge of crocodile habits reduced attacks. [5] [6]
Vulnerable: American crocodile, mugger crocodile, and dwarf crocodile. The main threat to crocodilians worldwide is human activity, including hunting and habitat destruction. Early in the 1970s, more than 2 million wild crocodilian skins had been traded, depleting the majority of crocodilian populations, in some cases almost to extinction.
Three extant crocodilian species clockwise from top-left: saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) Crocodilia is an order of mostly large, predatory , semiaquatic reptiles , which includes true crocodiles , the alligators , and caimans ; as well as the gharial ...
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 more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both ...
Crocodilians living in this ecosystem included Leidyosuchus, around 12 feet (3.5 meters) long, and the smaller Albertochampsa. The semiaquatic superficially croc-like Champsosaurus also was present.
The inguinal saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is the largest predator inhabiting the coasts, rivers, and lakes of Timor.It is the only crocodile species capable of living in both saltwater and freshwater environments and is native to the entire Southeast Asian archipelago, ranging from the eastern coast of India to the northern coast of Australia.
The news agency added that some who have seen crocodiles acting this way think the wild animals are trying to lure people into the water so they can attack them.
The crocodile-like creature attacked first, according to the study, with deep tooth impacts in the sea cow’s snout, suggesting it tried to grasp this part of the dugong’s face to suffocate it ...