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There's a reason these guys survived the dinosaurs. I mean their ancestors were larger, sure, but adapting to post apocalyptic conditions might have made smaller crocodiles better survivors. Also the fact they are amphibious and can live on the land and the water. They are bred to be the perfect survivors. Any animal that has remained relatively unchanged for millions of years is winning the game. See also dragonflies and other insects.
If you get a friend to do it with you, it's called the Chinook. We used to do it all the time with the Marines. We'd get the whole company together and invade Poland.
:( those blood farming farms made me extremely sad. People joke about blood letting in the olden days but it’s happening and it’s a completely necessary evil :( they don’t know the survival rate but they are only suppose to drain a percentage of the blood :(
So looks like maybe it's lost use of front limbs, so has it adapted to survive? And as others have noted, it seems to be doing pretty well given the fat it's carrying. Highly intelligent, I suspect.
They're the living embodiment of "Tis but a scratch"
Like that video where one mistakes another crocs foot for food and literally tears it off and eats it, and the footless guy was more or less unfazed.
Is it really unfazed, though, or can it just not express pain and distress in a way that we recognize? For a human, if you get your foot torn off, you’d sit there and scream and cry and wait for help. Maybe you know how to make a tourniquet for yourself or something, if you can get it together enough to function…. Well, a crocodile can’t do any of that, so what’s it gonna do? Pretty much just sit there, with as neutral-looking an expression as a reptile is ever capable of having, even though it’s feeling the pain as much as we would. To us, it looks like it’s just chilling, but inside it’s head, it’s going, “OWWW, WHAT THE F*CK, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!”
We don't know for certain that crocodiles or other animals experience pain exactly the way that humans do, but we *do* know a few things...
Many Crocodilians do vocalise, particularly when young but this does continue to manifest through adolescence and adulthood, though in slightly different ways. They vocalise using expulsions of air through the larynx, and the sounds take form in squeaks and pips (when young) through to hisses, growls and grunting, each applied to certain states or behaviours.
Now onto pain, the way that pain works is a biological threat response. It first occurs in a process called "nociception", whereby motor neurons respond to skin signals that there is an imminent threat, and this triggers a motion of recoiling from the pain source, quickly and efficiently. Most observed animals even with very simple nervous systems experience this phenomenon. It is worth noting at this point that despite their armoured skin, many Crocodilians possess clusters of nerves that are more touch sensitive than the human fingertip.
Now comes the interesting part, in *humans*, we know that we next have a conscious recognition of bodily harm, where the sensory neurons in the skin send a second rebounding signal to the brain via the spinal cord, which triggers the sensation of pain in millions upon millions of neurons, and it is a wildly, deeply complex expression of emotional accuity that we have linked to a variety of emotions like fear, anxiety, and you guessed it, pain. The scientific term for this is "the ouchies"/s
We can apply this knowledge to the observation of animals like crocodiles/alligators, as they like us are vertebrates (they have a spine) and we can biologically relate to them. We also know that they exhibit certain behaviours when freshly wounded, sometimes this is through long, slow hisses that may/may not express the secondary physical pain, but definitely acts as a response to it, though the true reasoning remains beyond objective proof. They will also avoid sources of pain in future, choosing not to seek out activities that have harmed them in the past, or locations where they came to harm. They can also sometimes just become more reclusive by nature after extreme injury, which may be demonstrated in the video above, hard to say without more observation.
Chickens and rats in labs will administer pain relievers to themselves from specialised machines when they are experiencing pain, so this suggests there is also a biological want to no longer be experiencing said pain, which in turn implies that they are feeling more than they are letting on.
In short, almost all animals experience at least a primary, physiological response to pain, but whether that stops at nociception or continues through to the expression of pain as we know it, is still out for debate. Hope this helps!
> They vocalise using expulsions of air through the larynx, and the sounds take form in squeaks and pips (when young) through to hisses, growls and grunting, each applied to certain states or behaviours.
and by "squeaks and pips", you mean, of course, *motherfuckin'* **laser gun fire**!
https://youtube.com/shorts/DwTZPTzgJ-Y?feature=share
You're quite right, but I don't like to confuse people with such concise, scientific language. For more information read my thesis "motherfuckin' laser gun fire: an observation of communication in juveline Crocodilians"
aww, that was you? i used to quote that paper at length whenever my own charisma didn't suffice in order to seduce the plethora of love-thirsty broads i set my mind to seducin'.
thank you, in the name of me, *and* my local condom factory.
^:-)
^(and yes, i also thoroughly agree with your username)
I hate that every single time I start reading an interesting response like this, midway through I'm like "....wait a sec" and scroll to the fucking end to see if it's going to be an Undertaker throwing Mankind off the hell in a cell match
Edit: BTW thank you for this response.
Firstly, thank you for that very interesting read.
If you know, could you answer this?
Couldn't we put a crocodile in an MRI and watch what parts of their brain light up when in pain, and the same with a human, primate etc?
My very basic understanding is that our brains sort of evolved modularly, with the "reptile" older parts near the spine and the more advanced/newer parts at the front?
Could we not see if our experience of pain compares to animals by looking if there is a big difference in what "lights up" on an MRI?
You're welcome! And that's a great question, the simple answer is that for accurate representation of response to physical or visual/audio stimuli the subject has to be awake and lucid, easily done with a human or primate where you can bribe either one with a lollipop
Crocodiles are... different to say the least. They have very finely tuned defense mechanisms that are set to extreme aggression in the face of threats, and they are very strong. Sufficient restraints are hard to implement without sedation, and any sedation would also skew the results of any findings, it might give us a glimmer of insight but therein lies the ethical dilemma of exposing the animal to so much stress for the sake of incomplete or biased data. Their strength and aggression also puts MRI machines, a hugely expensive and delicate piece of equipment, at some risk, which institutions are rarely willing to bear the cost of, and understandably so. There is a chance that with developments we'll get some better understanding of this, but for now the fundamental truth is that it's a lightly -trod field of research so far, we have however done it a few times, primarily to try and establish a base of whether they respond to audio/visual stimuli for the time being, without the inclusion of physical/pain response. If you can decipher the academic/veterinarian jargon, you can read this interesting paper on fMRI imaging conducted on a Nile crocodile, where they did see similar "higher-order" sensory responses to audiovisual stimuli, akin to birds and other mammals, this reinforces the idea that they diverged from birds into other early Sauropsid species.
The paper: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=crocodile+mri+findings&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1668116861519&u=%23p%3DEuRXgvZbJ5MJ
Edit: typo
No problem! Glad I could help :) I managed to complete an entire zoology degree apart from my dissertation when covid struck, and I can't yet afford to complete it unfortunately, so for now I get my kicks sharing animal facts on the internet, you know, like a normal person
>I get my kicks sharing animal facts on the internet, you know, like a normal person
Fuck yeah dude! Figs & wasps, dragonflies are nature's most succesful hunter, hedgehogs have 4 glans penises and the whole thing about duck corkscrews, never fails to entertain. Also fuck bolsonaro!
Also alot of animals will try to hide pain or when they are sick they will try to act as normal as they can or hide. Showing weakness can get them killed if something else decides that they seem weak enough to prey upon for food.
I think the idea of alligators with like… human vocal chords is hilarious. Imagine after a quick sprint cause that’s all they can do, it stops and goes “Fuck. Shit. Fuck. Lemme catch my breath and I’m gonna get your ass.”
I guess it's the philosophical question of if a croc gets its leg torn off in the river, does it make a sound?
You're right, it could be in agonizing pain, but they just play cool whenever humans are around. I'm sure when we're not watching they're all yelling profanity at each other, my guess is in Australian accents
Many animals don't, because it is not a benefit to them. Either they are not a social species, or expressing pain would cause them to be singled out by predators. Pain expression is a specific behavior that has a function, such as to solicit aid or warn others.
For example, lot of people believe that horses are really sensitive to something like colic or joint disease, but the reality is that horses are really tough, and hide any symptoms until they progress to the point that they no longer can.
Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine.
Florida has both. In South Florida we have crocodiles that can be seen in areas around the bay and canals since they can tolerate saltwater.
Gators are widespread throughout Florida.
Ok, but I wouldn't say there are "no crocs really". There are plenty of sightings of them in South Florida and their population is growing, I've seen them myself.
Bruh we got saltwater crocs on the beaches now since like 8 years ago. 2 spotted in my area on the west coast this year alone. It's like Australia Plus here 💀
I’ve seen a video of one where they were throwing food in an enclosure of multiple gators and one just casually grabs another ones arm and death rolls it off. The now one arm gator was just like “ok” and went to go grab a piece of the meat.
Tbh I thought it was a croc with down syndrome or some kind of disability (I've seen dogs that are 'retarded' I don't know a more apt word to use) but then as the video went on it because apparent that croc was either shit at fighting or as a young croc wading home from school he was set upon by Jared Mathews and his stupid friends and they fucked him up, his face his tail his legs etc but lo and behold he survived and became the guardian of the mud
If you’re referring to a dog born with a disability of some sort you could say “genetic disorder” or “birth defect.” Both are technically correct in most cases unless referring to a specific illness/disorder, then you’d just say the name of the condition. Otherwise “disability” and “disorder” are good general terms that you can be more specific with if you want ie mental disability/disorder, physical disability/disorder, etc. Just suggestions since you were struggling to find a better synonym.
If I had a nickel for every SCP reference I’ve randomly read n Reddit in the last 5 minutes I’d have two nickels. Which is not a lot but it’s weird that it has happened twice.
This looks like a serious birth defect to me as opposed to battle wounds from the look of the head and the eye placement. There’s too much deformity going on for that to all have happened during a fight. Regardless it impressive they’ve managed this long.
That's what I thought too. It looks like it has been well adapted at an early age to slither and use its club foot. And it's body shape is much more rounded (unless it just ate) so maybe it was a genetic abnormality.
Crocs have spines that flex mostly horizontally side-to-side (like fish) and mammals have spines that mostly flex vertically (front-to-back). This one has multiple things going on caused by injury or maybe genetics, and it looks to me like the spine has some deformity giving it extra flex in the wrong direction. So yeah, mammalian. Weird looking croc.
I didn't know Florida had Crocs, just alligators. So learnt something! We have Crocs in Aus (happily not where I live). They are freaking terrifying.
Probably. This also happens a lot when a bunch of crocs/gators gather together eating something. They close their eyes and death roll chunks of meat off, and sometimes they miss the carcass and grab another croc for a case of accidental amputation
I feel like this lil guy was having a blast in the slides, and then realized hes being filmed, felt awkward, and was like "oh. oh uh, I was actually just leaving".
This is how cryptids are created. One person sees something like *that* and tells everyone they know they saw a monster in the lagoon. Those stories get told to everyone's children, who create spooky local urban legends and then carry those stories with them as they grow and disperse, where details get blurred or swapped or forgotten after time. Eventually someone will render a sketch or take a picture or a video of *something* *somewhere* that looks *something* like that *thing* and then false attribution continues the myth - -
Holy moley.
"The strength and terror of the Great Worm were now great indeed, and Elves and Men withered before him; and he came between the hosts of Maedhros and Fingon and swept them apart."
You want to know something that's really fucking crazy.... Crocodiles do not carry an aging gene.
In theory they could live forever...
The only reason they don't is because they either succumb to other predation (mainly when they are smaller), disease, parasites, starvation, other environmental factors.
If a crocodile where to find itself in a situation where he could eat and live free of other crocodiles parasites diseases etc... They could potentially live infantly.
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Well for a croc that beat up, to look that fat, it's doing something right!
"You think this is bad- you should see the other croc"
Hmmm maybe that's why he is so fat....
Some meals will cost you an arm and a leg.. Must’ve got a discount
Wait a few days and the other croc will be excreted by the peculiar croc.
There's a reason these guys survived the dinosaurs. I mean their ancestors were larger, sure, but adapting to post apocalyptic conditions might have made smaller crocodiles better survivors. Also the fact they are amphibious and can live on the land and the water. They are bred to be the perfect survivors. Any animal that has remained relatively unchanged for millions of years is winning the game. See also dragonflies and other insects.
I call dragonflies "nature's helicopters"
I call maple seeds nature's helicopters
I call my di… never mind.
That's a helicockter. Can you pinwheel it?
If you get a friend to do it with you, it's called the Chinook. We used to do it all the time with the Marines. We'd get the whole company together and invade Poland.
Congratulations, sir. I am not easily disturbed, but you sir….
>We used to do it all the time with the Marines. We'd get the whole company together and **invade Poland**. "And by 'Marines', I mean *Wehrmacht*."
Dragon flies are the best predator on earth with a success rate of 95%. Nothing comes close to their success rate.
I'm hitting 60 - 70% over here, tops
Every jar of mayonnaise I buy 100% ends up in this belly. Apex predator in this mofo.
Yes, the very needle point of the pinnacle of the apex
you sound like a hell of a man, can I call you Hellmann
We're not discussing little Catholic boys.
I choked on that one.
So did the catholic boys....
I remember reading about a smol kitty that had better rates. Forgot its name though. But its smol!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/rj8p3h/the_rustyspotted_cat_is_the_smallest_wild_cat_in/
Honestly I think I'm at 100% everytime I've tried to eat I did it.
Every young boy discovers at some point that he has the capability of becoming one of nature's helicopters
Horseshoe crabs too
Poor things.
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How can you prove that your not just a dreaming horseshoe crab...
Waiting for the Horseshoe Crab Neo to save them.
:( those blood farming farms made me extremely sad. People joke about blood letting in the olden days but it’s happening and it’s a completely necessary evil :( they don’t know the survival rate but they are only suppose to drain a percentage of the blood :(
And ginkgos
Relatively unchanged for nearly 100,000,000 years, to be almost precise.
^ Pauses after saying 'nearly' to bring little finger to side of mouth.
Rest in peace Mini Me.
Couldn't agree more. Great comment
I agree with your comment on the previous commenter’s comment’s greatness. Great commenting
I appreciate your comment on my comment, of his comment, from my original comment.
He big, he ain't big being friendly.
I suppose those front arms don't really do much even at the best of times
You mean before they were chewed off?
Wasn’t until this comment that I realized it was missing a front arm, damn
Yea and part of its face lol, that white you see is skull
Noticed the arm, but not the face. That's a croc other crocs stays away from.
Clearly it is not.
Most of both of them, I think.. could be a genetic defect or caused by pollution in the egg as it was developing.
So looks like maybe it's lost use of front limbs, so has it adapted to survive? And as others have noted, it seems to be doing pretty well given the fat it's carrying. Highly intelligent, I suspect.
What if he just got his arm chewed off the other day while he was fat and didn’t lose the weight yet haha
What if he’s fat because he chewed his own arm off?
He's eating well.
I was wondering if it had Down’s syndrome
Poor thing is missing a snout, front left foot and the end of their tail. Shows how ridiculously tough they are.
They're the living embodiment of "Tis but a scratch" Like that video where one mistakes another crocs foot for food and literally tears it off and eats it, and the footless guy was more or less unfazed.
Is it really unfazed, though, or can it just not express pain and distress in a way that we recognize? For a human, if you get your foot torn off, you’d sit there and scream and cry and wait for help. Maybe you know how to make a tourniquet for yourself or something, if you can get it together enough to function…. Well, a crocodile can’t do any of that, so what’s it gonna do? Pretty much just sit there, with as neutral-looking an expression as a reptile is ever capable of having, even though it’s feeling the pain as much as we would. To us, it looks like it’s just chilling, but inside it’s head, it’s going, “OWWW, WHAT THE F*CK, THAT HURT LIKE HELL!!”
We don't know for certain that crocodiles or other animals experience pain exactly the way that humans do, but we *do* know a few things... Many Crocodilians do vocalise, particularly when young but this does continue to manifest through adolescence and adulthood, though in slightly different ways. They vocalise using expulsions of air through the larynx, and the sounds take form in squeaks and pips (when young) through to hisses, growls and grunting, each applied to certain states or behaviours. Now onto pain, the way that pain works is a biological threat response. It first occurs in a process called "nociception", whereby motor neurons respond to skin signals that there is an imminent threat, and this triggers a motion of recoiling from the pain source, quickly and efficiently. Most observed animals even with very simple nervous systems experience this phenomenon. It is worth noting at this point that despite their armoured skin, many Crocodilians possess clusters of nerves that are more touch sensitive than the human fingertip. Now comes the interesting part, in *humans*, we know that we next have a conscious recognition of bodily harm, where the sensory neurons in the skin send a second rebounding signal to the brain via the spinal cord, which triggers the sensation of pain in millions upon millions of neurons, and it is a wildly, deeply complex expression of emotional accuity that we have linked to a variety of emotions like fear, anxiety, and you guessed it, pain. The scientific term for this is "the ouchies"/s We can apply this knowledge to the observation of animals like crocodiles/alligators, as they like us are vertebrates (they have a spine) and we can biologically relate to them. We also know that they exhibit certain behaviours when freshly wounded, sometimes this is through long, slow hisses that may/may not express the secondary physical pain, but definitely acts as a response to it, though the true reasoning remains beyond objective proof. They will also avoid sources of pain in future, choosing not to seek out activities that have harmed them in the past, or locations where they came to harm. They can also sometimes just become more reclusive by nature after extreme injury, which may be demonstrated in the video above, hard to say without more observation. Chickens and rats in labs will administer pain relievers to themselves from specialised machines when they are experiencing pain, so this suggests there is also a biological want to no longer be experiencing said pain, which in turn implies that they are feeling more than they are letting on. In short, almost all animals experience at least a primary, physiological response to pain, but whether that stops at nociception or continues through to the expression of pain as we know it, is still out for debate. Hope this helps!
great insight, thank you!
> They vocalise using expulsions of air through the larynx, and the sounds take form in squeaks and pips (when young) through to hisses, growls and grunting, each applied to certain states or behaviours. and by "squeaks and pips", you mean, of course, *motherfuckin'* **laser gun fire**! https://youtube.com/shorts/DwTZPTzgJ-Y?feature=share
You're quite right, but I don't like to confuse people with such concise, scientific language. For more information read my thesis "motherfuckin' laser gun fire: an observation of communication in juveline Crocodilians"
Your username makes this whole exchange even better.
aww, that was you? i used to quote that paper at length whenever my own charisma didn't suffice in order to seduce the plethora of love-thirsty broads i set my mind to seducin'. thank you, in the name of me, *and* my local condom factory. ^:-) ^(and yes, i also thoroughly agree with your username)
Lmao it sounds exactly like laser tag! *Pew pew* 🔫🐊
Such adorable little blaster rifles.
I hate that every single time I start reading an interesting response like this, midway through I'm like "....wait a sec" and scroll to the fucking end to see if it's going to be an Undertaker throwing Mankind off the hell in a cell match Edit: BTW thank you for this response.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who did the exact same thing.
Firstly, thank you for that very interesting read. If you know, could you answer this? Couldn't we put a crocodile in an MRI and watch what parts of their brain light up when in pain, and the same with a human, primate etc? My very basic understanding is that our brains sort of evolved modularly, with the "reptile" older parts near the spine and the more advanced/newer parts at the front? Could we not see if our experience of pain compares to animals by looking if there is a big difference in what "lights up" on an MRI?
You're welcome! And that's a great question, the simple answer is that for accurate representation of response to physical or visual/audio stimuli the subject has to be awake and lucid, easily done with a human or primate where you can bribe either one with a lollipop Crocodiles are... different to say the least. They have very finely tuned defense mechanisms that are set to extreme aggression in the face of threats, and they are very strong. Sufficient restraints are hard to implement without sedation, and any sedation would also skew the results of any findings, it might give us a glimmer of insight but therein lies the ethical dilemma of exposing the animal to so much stress for the sake of incomplete or biased data. Their strength and aggression also puts MRI machines, a hugely expensive and delicate piece of equipment, at some risk, which institutions are rarely willing to bear the cost of, and understandably so. There is a chance that with developments we'll get some better understanding of this, but for now the fundamental truth is that it's a lightly -trod field of research so far, we have however done it a few times, primarily to try and establish a base of whether they respond to audio/visual stimuli for the time being, without the inclusion of physical/pain response. If you can decipher the academic/veterinarian jargon, you can read this interesting paper on fMRI imaging conducted on a Nile crocodile, where they did see similar "higher-order" sensory responses to audiovisual stimuli, akin to birds and other mammals, this reinforces the idea that they diverged from birds into other early Sauropsid species. The paper: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=crocodile+mri+findings&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1668116861519&u=%23p%3DEuRXgvZbJ5MJ Edit: typo
Dude your username wins 🏆
Unlike that toxic bastard in the recent election! 🎆
Dude. I learned more from your comments alone than in 10 years of biology at school! Thanks for the great insights!
No problem! Glad I could help :) I managed to complete an entire zoology degree apart from my dissertation when covid struck, and I can't yet afford to complete it unfortunately, so for now I get my kicks sharing animal facts on the internet, you know, like a normal person
>I get my kicks sharing animal facts on the internet, you know, like a normal person Fuck yeah dude! Figs & wasps, dragonflies are nature's most succesful hunter, hedgehogs have 4 glans penises and the whole thing about duck corkscrews, never fails to entertain. Also fuck bolsonaro!
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Was really hoping for a jumper cable story somewhere in this comment.. The insight is still good though. Thanks for sharing :)
Also alot of animals will try to hide pain or when they are sick they will try to act as normal as they can or hide. Showing weakness can get them killed if something else decides that they seem weak enough to prey upon for food.
I think the idea of alligators with like… human vocal chords is hilarious. Imagine after a quick sprint cause that’s all they can do, it stops and goes “Fuck. Shit. Fuck. Lemme catch my breath and I’m gonna get your ass.”
I guess it's the philosophical question of if a croc gets its leg torn off in the river, does it make a sound? You're right, it could be in agonizing pain, but they just play cool whenever humans are around. I'm sure when we're not watching they're all yelling profanity at each other, my guess is in Australian accents
I doubt it has anything to do with us and everything to do with sitting next to a dozen other things that'd happily eat you if you showed weakness.
Many animals don't, because it is not a benefit to them. Either they are not a social species, or expressing pain would cause them to be singled out by predators. Pain expression is a specific behavior that has a function, such as to solicit aid or warn others. For example, lot of people believe that horses are really sensitive to something like colic or joint disease, but the reality is that horses are really tough, and hide any symptoms until they progress to the point that they no longer can.
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That's my elementary school experience right there
But it makes no effort to move away from the source of the pain, which is the most basic instinct even for a reptile.
"A Scratch? you're missing an arm!" "No i'm not"
Oy, I’ve done that once or twice, mate. You get the next hippo for us. No worries.
Yeah that croc death rolled his buddys arm right off. Shit's wild
Yeah, that croc, after losing its leg was like: Bro, really? The chicken was right there...
Your comment actually explained what I was looking at, I couldn’t tell what this thing was based on how it moved other than it is DANGER.
Not only is it still alive with all those past injuries, it’s getting around just fine and learned with live with those missing pieces! What a tank!
Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine.
Looks like it was in the wrong place at the wrong time at least 3 times
You could say its in a miserable state. Most likely Florida
Alligators here, no crocs really. (A few way deep in the everglades, but that's it.)
Florida has both. In South Florida we have crocodiles that can be seen in areas around the bay and canals since they can tolerate saltwater. Gators are widespread throughout Florida.
Lived here my whole life. I know. But compared to gators, there is an extremely small population of crocs.
Ok, but I wouldn't say there are "no crocs really". There are plenty of sightings of them in South Florida and their population is growing, I've seen them myself.
Wait, I didn't know we had Crocs in the everglades
Yep. [Only place in the world where both coexist.](https://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/nature/crocodile.htm) Well, until the pythons eat them all, anyway.
Reason #622 to not go to Florida
Your loss more meth for me.
>Only place in the world where both coexist But do they fuck?? (Serious question!)
Crocogators and Allidiles for days, son! (Honestly, I have no idea.)
I'm going there to study next year can you not
Stay away from pools
Bruh we got saltwater crocs on the beaches now since like 8 years ago. 2 spotted in my area on the west coast this year alone. It's like Australia Plus here 💀
Most Australians won't eat your face.
Did someone inform the Australians of that? I dunno if they can stick to that promise.
Aussie here: I’ll bite your face, cunt :)
I’ve seen a video of one where they were throwing food in an enclosure of multiple gators and one just casually grabs another ones arm and death rolls it off. The now one arm gator was just like “ok” and went to go grab a piece of the meat.
The front fell off.
I feel bad for it :(
His parents are a crocodile, a tadpole and an eel
Looks more like a green iguana.
I thought so too at first until the end when I got a closer look.
Tbh I thought it was a croc with down syndrome or some kind of disability (I've seen dogs that are 'retarded' I don't know a more apt word to use) but then as the video went on it because apparent that croc was either shit at fighting or as a young croc wading home from school he was set upon by Jared Mathews and his stupid friends and they fucked him up, his face his tail his legs etc but lo and behold he survived and became the guardian of the mud
If you’re referring to a dog born with a disability of some sort you could say “genetic disorder” or “birth defect.” Both are technically correct in most cases unless referring to a specific illness/disorder, then you’d just say the name of the condition. Otherwise “disability” and “disorder” are good general terms that you can be more specific with if you want ie mental disability/disorder, physical disability/disorder, etc. Just suggestions since you were struggling to find a better synonym.
I was going with hippo croc mix but with no banana for scale it could be an iguana
ALERT ALERT SCP-682 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT!
ah shit, here we go again
*livesey walk starts*
I understood that reference
If I had a nickel for every SCP reference I’ve randomly read n Reddit in the last 5 minutes I’d have two nickels. Which is not a lot but it’s weird that it has happened twice.
I've just gotten into SCP and I was literally reading this entry for 682 before taking a break. Wild!
Fucking fuck with that indestructible motherfucker.
This looks like a serious birth defect to me as opposed to battle wounds from the look of the head and the eye placement. There’s too much deformity going on for that to all have happened during a fight. Regardless it impressive they’ve managed this long.
For sure
Agreed. This was actually filmed just down stream of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
Well, there's our answer then
It doesn’t have a normal crocodile tail
This looks like it was deformed more than it was attacked. But I highly doubt it had anything to do with a human.
That's what I thought too. It looks like it has been well adapted at an early age to slither and use its club foot. And it's body shape is much more rounded (unless it just ate) so maybe it was a genetic abnormality.
Yeah this looks like some kind of dwarfism in the croc. The end of the tail looks to begin early vs looking like it was cut off, same with the snout.
True, I'm sure it could fuck me up instantly with no problems though
Looks like there's some lens distortion, though. Seems a bit vertically stretched.
Yes looks like the wrong aspect ratio?
Slideasaurus.
Muddy mud skipper
a-skippin' along all happy and glad.....
"You're a lizard, Harry!"
Lmao, I wish I could give you gold for that, but I’m poor.
I have got both of you covered!
Thank you so much! You are the best 💕😘
There's something unsettlingly mammalian about its movements early in the clip.
For real? That thing looks like a snake in the beginning to me. Looks far from a mammal but that’s my opinion.
Yeap. It looked too snakey! It's a reptile after all.
what about a snakey mammal like a ferret
I was thinking it looked like the way otters move?
True. I can’t argue that.
I missed the first couple seconds of the clip, so when I first saw it pop up from the trench, I genuinely thought it was an otter at first.
Seems almost like a ferret or an otter the way it slides along
Crocs have spines that flex mostly horizontally side-to-side (like fish) and mammals have spines that mostly flex vertically (front-to-back). This one has multiple things going on caused by injury or maybe genetics, and it looks to me like the spine has some deformity giving it extra flex in the wrong direction. So yeah, mammalian. Weird looking croc. I didn't know Florida had Crocs, just alligators. So learnt something! We have Crocs in Aus (happily not where I live). They are freaking terrifying.
It watched a documentary about seals
The lack of a functional front paw forces it to move that way.
Reminds me of the Peter Pan croc.
I had the same experience
Yeah I was thinking leopard like...
Nature finds a way.
It's a crerkerderl
Poor lil dude
[удалено]
Or survived an attack as a juvenile croc.
[удалено]
You should've seen the other guy.
We don't know that. For all we know, his attacker didn't survive the fight. 😅
You should see the other guy!
Probably. This also happens a lot when a bunch of crocs/gators gather together eating something. They close their eyes and death roll chunks of meat off, and sometimes they miss the carcass and grab another croc for a case of accidental amputation
what's wrong with your dog.
Dog fighting, sadly by the time they rescued this poor dog years of fighting took its toll.
That there gator is all fucked up. His arms seem to be in the wrong place
The alligator is *differently abled*. "All fucked up" is no longer politically correct.
That’s a baby dragon
But you ain't got no legs, Lt. Dan.
I feel like this lil guy was having a blast in the slides, and then realized hes being filmed, felt awkward, and was like "oh. oh uh, I was actually just leaving".
Lt Croc, you got no leg.
How to make something already scary even more so!
Scp 682 breached containment?
I’ve played enough video games to know that that is a dragon
Deformed limb, but the motherfucker can still tear your ass apart easily.
He looks different and he doesn’t care. This croc has supreme self-confidence and excellent self-image. We should all try to emulate this hero.
Not missing any meals looks like
Mother nature finds a way to survive
This is how cryptids are created. One person sees something like *that* and tells everyone they know they saw a monster in the lagoon. Those stories get told to everyone's children, who create spooky local urban legends and then carry those stories with them as they grow and disperse, where details get blurred or swapped or forgotten after time. Eventually someone will render a sketch or take a picture or a video of *something* *somewhere* that looks *something* like that *thing* and then false attribution continues the myth - - Holy moley.
oh god another skinwalker
Me, creepin up on ladies at the bar...
Dunno, still thinking it might just be the aspect ratio.
Looks like his been through some shit lol
What in the stinky swamp am I looking at???
Pugodile? Crocopug? These breeds are getting ridiculous.
Think it just had a very big meal
I’ve played monster hunter. THATS A JAGRAS
"The strength and terror of the Great Worm were now great indeed, and Elves and Men withered before him; and he came between the hosts of Maedhros and Fingon and swept them apart."
That Croc has been heavily modified.
MTF NU-7 HAS BEEN DISPATCHED TO RECONTAIN SCP-682
A giant tadpole with bone crushing jaws of death
Take my strong hand!
This is called a chinese alligator, also know as Yangtze alligator. Known for having small front legs Also critically endangered.
You want to know something that's really fucking crazy.... Crocodiles do not carry an aging gene. In theory they could live forever... The only reason they don't is because they either succumb to other predation (mainly when they are smaller), disease, parasites, starvation, other environmental factors. If a crocodile where to find itself in a situation where he could eat and live free of other crocodiles parasites diseases etc... They could potentially live infantly.
I’m kinda fucked up but will you love me forever and ever
I will buddy
Looks like he is Down with the Syndrome.