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unrestrained summer fun

This isn’t what I would have pictured if asked about gator enrichment, but I like it

This is why lines are long at the amusement parks in Florida

what breed of dog is this

crazy

Aren’t these guys supposed to be [relatively] slow-moving when they’re on land?

They can run up to 55 miles an hour, climb fences, and jump 2/3 of their body length straight up.

*11 miles an hour (still faster than you want to be chased by a bear trap on legs, I imagine!) Also, they jump like that out of the water, not on the ground.

But yeah don’t assume the adorable scale puppies dangerous apex predators are slow and safe just because they’re on land.

Seasons change, stars drift across the heavens, and in long quiet moments the human mind returns once again to the eternal question: what even is a crocodile?

A scaled cat that holds you close in slumber?

A fevered memory of colourful wings?

An acute angle out for blood?

The worst pig?

A horrible little man with a moustache?

A banana?

Or is it possible that, as some philosophers have suggested, the true crocodile lives inside our imaginations, making it impossible to judge any answer right or wrong?

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Here’s a handy little size approximation guide to alligatoridae! Ridley is the bottom-left.

What in the heck was happening in the American and the Black Caimen’s habitat that allowed them to get so big compared to everyone else?!

Well, the American alligator is relatively small, as far as crocodilians historically go (it’s the one in blue):

the differences between crocodiles and alligators in case u were not aware

@dholes

Both are friends.

@rashkah

But how about gharial and caiman?

here comes the rest of the family

The gang’s all here

so many chompy friends i did not even know existed

hello boys let’s have a fish fry

:V :V :V :V :V

an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye, which reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light, and causes its eyes to glow red. photos by larry lynch and david moynahan

Animal Lectures #01 Caiman Crocodilus Andrew McGibbon

imagine a crocodile with horse-like legs… unstoppable… i would love to ride one o’ those into battle

are you..high 

….carry on 

Fun fact these ‘crocodile cousins’ with ‘horse-like legs’ existed and was known as a ‘sabre-toothed cat in armour’ due to it’s speed out of water and long fangs. There was the ‘DogCroc’ ( Araripesuchus wegeneri) and ‘BoarCroc’ (Kaprosuchus). The DogCroc (featured above) was only around the size of a small dog, with its skull easily fitting into the palm of someones hand. It lived during the Lower Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous period;

*Comparison of a DogCroc’s skull to a Sarcosuchus skull. (Sarcosuchus is the largest known crocodile species and was large enough it could even prey upon a T-Rex and could weigh up to ten tonnes and be over forty feet long.)

However the BoarCroc (Kaprosuchus) was twenty-foot long and could gallop across land and preyed upon dinosaurs.

Alligators/crocodilians with butterfly friends are my new favorite thing

I’m at the zoo and a little girl is lovingly staring at a ground boa and whispering “hi sweetie pie” and telling it that she reads two books before bedtime is this what baby slytherins are like

CROCODILIAN SPECIES LIST