Funny Crocodile Pictures

Will and Guy's Collection of Funny Crocodile Pictures

• Giant Crocodile Picture
• Problem - Nobody told the Crocodiles
• Alli Shedden adopts a 16 foot crocodile
• Those who throw objects at the crocodiles....
• Please don't sit on the Crocodile!
• Interesting facts about the Crocodile

Giant Crocodile Picture

A picture of one of the biggest crocodiles we have ever seen - taken in South Africa.  You can get an idea of the size of the crocodile from the woman nestling under his forearm.

The biggest ever crocodile is a tricky call.  The Guinness book of records list 'Yai' a hybrid crocodile from Thailand at 20ft.  However, there are claims for crocodiles of over 30ft.  What is indisputable is that the largest species of crocodile is Crocodylus porosus which lives in estuaries.  Because this species of crocodile occurs all over the world, there are claims from Indonesia, Bangladesh, South Africa and Australia. 

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Problem - Nobody Told the Crocodiles

Alli Shedden adopts a 16 foot crocodile as a pet.

Alli Shedden, from Siquirres in Costa Rica, found the crocodile, which had a bullet in its head, in a swamp.

He took the injured animal home, named it Poncho and nursed it back to health, reports Las Ultimas Noticias.  It took him four years to heal the 58-stone crocodile - by which time he says his wife had accepted it.  See the funny crocodile picture below.

Mr Shedden told Las Ultimas Noticias, 'The crocodile has never done anything to harm me, he knows who I am, it is as if it is a dog, it eats off my hands.

'When Poncho arrived I was unemployed and now people pay to see me playing with my pet, I want to put together a show, so I can show the world our friendship.'

Those who throw objects at the crocodiles, will be asked to retrieve them!

Observe the picture carefully, do you see that crocodile lurking in the murky water?

Please don't sit on the Crocodile!

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Interesting Facts about Crocodiles

• A group of crocodiles is called a congregation.  In Will and Guy's opinion, a more descriptive collective noun for crocodiles is a 'float' of crocodiles.
• Unusually, the gender of crocodiles is determined by temperature.  If the eggs are incubated tat over 33^oc, then the egg hatches into a male or 'bull' crocodile.  At lower temperatures only female or 'cow' crocodiles develop.
• When the baby crocodiles are ready to hatch they start crying.  This triggers their mother to frantically dig them out of their sandy birth-chamber.  At this point, if you are lucky, you will see the mother carry the baby gently in her mouth and take it to water.
• Crocodiles and Alligators can live for at least 50 years.  There are claims for much older specimen, but as these are not friendly animals, it's got to be hard to prove some of the claims for those reaching 100 yrs old.
• The crocodile's strategy of hanging around rivers and waiting for a tasty snack has stood the test of hundreds of millions of years.  Powerful jaws, full of razor sharp teeth are just the combination to kill unsuspecting animals who come down to the river to drink.
• Did you know that a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out?
• Being reptiles, crocodiles are cold blooded, however they are masters at controlling their temperature by cooling off in water, or sun-bathing on the river banks - depending on the weather.
• Alligators and crocodiles have a unique haemoglobin, which allows them to store more oxygen.  The benefit is they can stay underwater without breathing for long periods of time.
• The phrase 'soft belly' could have been coined with the crocodile in mind.  There is such a huge contrast between it's upper 'dorsal' side, which is bullet-proof, and it's lower 'ventral' side which is as soft as a puff-ball.
• Eight times a year a congregation of crocodiles gathers in on the Mary river to the east of Darwin Australia.  Instinct tells them that at these unusually high tides means masses of fish are going to leap over the barrier as the tide comes in.  On one occasion David Attenborough showed up and filmed about 60 crocodiles feasting on the fish as they tried to leap over the barrier.

Crocodile Natural History

If you count the alligators and the caiman, there are 23 species of crocodile in the world today. While they can crawl on their bellies, or even walk like mammals, crocodiles are most at home in the water, as you can see from our funny crocodile pictures.

Differences between Crocodiles and Alligators

Crocodiles more pointed 'V-shaped noses, whereas alligators have a wide U-shaped, snout.  If you see a an olive brown body wriggling in a tropical river it's more likely to be a crocodile.  By comparison, alligators are darker and may appear almost black.

Will and Guy think that the teeth are the biggest clue in the croc -v- gator debate.  In crocodiles, the lower 4th tooth looks like a peg and juts into the upper jaw.  Alligators have a smaller lower jaw, thus when they close their mouth you don't see much of the lower teeth in general, and the 4th 'peg' in particular.

Crocodile Theft

One of the strangest thefts occurred in Darwin, Australia.  Police were searching for thieves who stole 18 saltwater crocodiles. The thieves broke into an enclosure at a crocodile farm and took 18 baby reptiles.  The little crocs were less than 40cm (15 inches) long, amazingly they could be worth as much as $1,000 each on the black market.

"They have obviously found a way to get in and remove 18 crocodiles from the farm. Eighteen crocs of that size could fit in a tub and be moved reasonably easily," police spokesman Matt Crichton told Australian Associated Press.   One motive maybe growing them for their crocodile skins which can be exported to Japan or Singapore, where they can be made into boots, handbags and belts.

Alligator Theft? - Police Surprised by Live Alligator in Car

Many car drivers are happy to transport their pets by car; dogs are commonplace as passengers all over the world. Recently, however, Will and Guy have established from 'The Facts' newspaper in Brazoria, Texas, USA that police who stopped a Buick car for carrying out an illegal u-turn received a surprise when they found that the driver was, in fact, a felon wanted for burglary.

What surprised the police even more was the fearsome reptile roaming free in the car: a live alligator some six feet long. They took this photograph of the alligator, at rest, on the rear window ledge.

Apparently the alligator was 'happy and content' and did not make any fuss when he was arrested and taken to a local nature reserve and set free.

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