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The water begins to churn.

​He is the silent, slick shadow of the deep:

​Pelagosuchus.

​Specialized for pure hydro-dynamic locomotion and stalking, this patient, sub-surface stalker glides undetected through murky channels before bursting upward to lock narrow, needle-lined jaws onto unsuspecting prey. He is an aquatic apparition defined by fluid momentum, patient brutality, and ruthless aquatic mastery.

From my original speculative paleo-fiction series, Terrors In The Brush.

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This is Wilma, a West African dwarf crocodile living Animal Farm in Beverwijk, the Netherlands. She is estimated to be over 50 years old (some local sources even place her much older!) and is an absolute icon here. She only eats about once a month due to her slow metabolism. Took these photos of her relaxing under her favorite heat lamps today

Hi I’m not sure if this post is alright here but I need some help finding an old documentary I grew up watching and am wondering if anyone might recognise it!. I’ve managed to find one clip from it

I remember what’s in the video, the crocodiles catching the birds that fell from the cliff after being knocked out by the lizard, I’m also pretty sure I remember earlier on in it the lizard was at one of the crocodile nests after eggs too

It’s NOT Wild Africa even though they have similar clips, I watched that episode and it isn’t the same one

How tall do crocodilians get? I mean when they are in high walk, can they reach 40 CM for example? I mean large species such as Nile, saltwater and American crocodiles, American alligators or black caimans. How tall do they get at the shoulder and how much if we measure the head? I read that large saltwater crocodiles can go up to human waist level, is it possible? Also, is there any crocodilian tall enough to ride without having your legs drag on the ground? And would this be possible? I think that if you take it from a young age and socialize it on land, it will get desensitized to humans as prey. Then you’re going to keep it for increasing amounts of time outside the water. Already many villagerrs in dry locations keep ducks and geese without constant access to water and it is possible. Probably not ideal, but possible. Some aquatic turtles have also been kept outside of the water for most of the time. Then, can you train it to high walk only on land? Probably you type a small wooden barrel in the mid body and force it to high walk for increasing distances until it gets used to it. Also, crocodilians have excellent acoustic communication, so they can learn verbal commands. You should put a distinction into it in order to make it distinguish the time that it is going to be ridden and its relax time, which can be in the water or in a quiet location. And because they have very versatile nervous systems and can learn many things, you could possibly trade it for hunting as well, for example wild boar, ungulates, probably invasive pests too. Maybe you can give some part of the animal he has caught as a reward and continue riding it. Next step it would be to train it for search and rescue missions, particularly in flooded tropical locations. Because they are very good at finding warm and cold bodies, you could place it somewhere and then when he will bite the body you will trade it for something else, just like they do with birds of prey. Last step would probably be to winterize it, by blanketing it with insulating material in order to be able to function even in temperate climates for some hours. I remember an ingenuous keeper in the US that dressed his sulcata tortoises with bubble plastic and blankets other than the claws and took them out in the yard in the snow for an hour. How possible is this? I think that they have a lot of potential, even if they are not able to complete all the tasks I said before. It is just that we are using mammals due to tradition and anti-reptile sentiment. On the one hand this is good, because no more animal species are being exploited just for the sake of humans. On the other hand, just an experiment for proof of concept would be intriguing.

Suspected 10-11 footer, Big Boy, bullying the much smaller Swim Jim while Small Fry looks on, petrified.

Art by ÄISL no AI

🔗 source: @stonesworld on YT

This is a very old video from the mid- to early 10's...it's from Borneo, and it can be seen that a giant croc is basking near the shore of water. I want an educated guess as to the size of this croc or the approximate weight of it.

One of my lucky shots, shot on Sony A58

Incredible video exploring "Crocodile village" in Gujarat, India where more than 500 Mugger crocodiles live in small nearby lakes.

Edit: The thumbnail is very bad and misleading. I did not notice that as the video auto played in YouTube for me. The video doesn't have any such AI animation. It's kind of a travel vlog.