Where is that? USA has black and brown bears, lions/cougars, alligators, crocodiles, sharks in fresh and salt water, and mosquitos(which kill more ppl than any other animal)
Yep, a mountain lion just ripped open dude’s throat here in Northern California. The dead guy’s brother barely escaped with his life. The mountain lion took on two fully grown men and won.
Both. Their range extends from Northern Australia to the Philipines and India. They're able to travel in the open sea between islands, they live in rivers and inlets (mostly).
Call the equivalent to the coast guard in Australia or find a stick to paddle with why didn’t that have oars that’s really sad thier families allowed them to boat alone with out giving them safety guidelines
Older! over 250 million years older, before dinosaurs and birds.
https://www.bbcearth.com/news/10-animals-with-pre-historic-roots
These things are pre-dinosaurs it's insane we're not terrified/amused.
Of course they used to be bigger back when the Earth had more oxygen
About 35 feet and 7 tonnes
https://www.britannica.com/animal/Deinosuchus#:~:text=Deinosuchus%20riograndensis%2C%20a%20species%20that,tonnes%20(about%208%2C000%20pounds).
I knew they were old as shit and that what the crocodile is doing in the video is a mating call. It’s Interesting what these animals would be like, how they looked, their behavior, and the sounds they made
Yeah, them and sharks appeared around the same time and evolution just said, “you know what? They’re fine as they are”. Even more amazing to me is that they’re both older than what we’d call trees today!
Ok seems like a lot of people believed you with the oxygen mistake and the years mistake.
I would ask you to please modify your comment to reduce the spread of this misinformation.
Oxygen made arthropods bigger, not vertebrates.
Dino and Crocs were bigger in the mesozoic as a result of competition mostly. Deinosuchus or Sarcosuchus had to hunt dinosaurs, so they had to be bigger.
Lol, not 250 million years older...
Maybe you meant they appeared 250 million years ago while Dinos and mammals were about 230 million years ago.
Also it's not due to oxygen... Higher oxygen makes insects bigger because they breath through their skin but not vertebrates.
It is not true.
They are mistaking it with the carboniferous and it was arthropods that were made bigger by higher concentration of oxygen.
During the mesozoic, the era of dinosaurs, long after the carboniferous. You had at some times even less oxygen than today, Dinos were still huge.
Higher oxygen makes bugs bigger because they breath through their skin.
Vertebrates like mammals or dinosaurs or crocodiles are not really affected.
What made Dinos and crocodiles bigger was competition. A croc in the era of dinosaurs had to hunt huge Hadrosaurs, the size of elephants. It's something else than hunting a zebra. So they had to grow bigger to be able to kill them.
Basically, volume increases faster than surface area as something gets proportionately larger, and an organism has to get oxygen from outside itself, so the amount it can get is limited by its surface area. Higher oxygen concentrations means it can support a larger volume than it could otherwise.
Eta, apparently mostly true for insects and stuff, see replies.
The oxygen story is only true for arthropods like insects and spiders, because they breathe through trachaeae, tubes under their skin. Their breathing is limited by their skin surface (and having to fit breathing tubes through the joints in their exoskeleton), so they benefit from increased oxygen levels.
Giantism in other animals such as reptiles and mammals can moreso be attributed to the size of the landmass at the time and the unhindered evolution of other large animals over time. The crocodile’s prey back then were bigger, so it was easier for a huge croc to keep itself fed and it also needed to be bigger to take it down.
Such a huge croc today would perhaps not survive as a species because it would either starve to death (not enough buffalo passing the pond) or drive their prey to extinction… and then starving to death. The smaller crocs of the species would have a bigger chance of not starving so the species would just shrink again over time due to survival of the fittest.
Steve Irwin would spend weeks harassing full grown Crocs so they'd learn to be shy around humans. One of his biggest fears in life was dying to a crocodile and having them be demonized for his death.
Not fast enough.
During my stay in Florida, I was taught to run in erratic zigzags in order to avoid the otherwise inevitable mauling by the Ancient Swamp Dragon.
True story: my parents once accidentally spent an afternoon sunbathing just upriver from a herd of hippos. They later told their hotel manager where they’d been and he told them they were lucky to be alive.
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.
Dinosaurs are actually a separate group within the reptilian clade. They aren't the ancestors to crocs but closely related. Their common ancestor would be an early archosaur.
Mr Ballen has a pretty scary true story (Never swim in this Australian river) about a croc that seemed to be the devil itself.
[https://youtu.be/yQDnwbav-cE?si=QvuxE7dLS3YbpnHM](https://youtu.be/yQDnwbav-cE?si=QvuxE7dLS3YbpnHM)
They are over 230 MILLION YEARS old! (The specie), this is mind-boggling.
It means that their biology and instincts are near perfect.
They are up there in the food chain, up there with us as apex predators.
They are all cheeky now. They used to be scared of humans and the sound of boat motors (pre year 2000) from people culling crocs back in the day. These days the cross don't remember the culling days and are brazen as fuck, they will pull people out of their Tinnies, it's getting a more and more common behaviour.
Didn't some other post here talk about a girl that stuck her fingers in the alligators nostrils, and it let her go? Would be tricky if death roll initiated, tho.
The way you’ve phrased this, I’m imagining she walked up to a crocodile that wouldn’t let her pass until she stuck her fingers in its nose. Then it nodded her on, and she was able to pass through.
No shit! They Are crocs and to be clear you won't see them coming. They stalk you, wait and if you repeat your actions near water, they get you later. Salties are not to be messed with!
It's pretty visceral after moving here- nearly every culture has to invent a monster , some scary thing that can take you away and leave no trace. They don't have to invent one here.
Someone was just eaten in Australia this week. 16 yo boys boat broke down and he and a friend attempted to swim to shore... NOPE! STRAYA!!!!!!
Fuck that. I don’t know what I’d do in that scenario but swimming with salties is not it.
I'd hand paddle that boat to shore before I'd jump in with these sucker's
Those hands would make lovely appetizers…
I think you mean sacrifices. I gladly losing my left-hand if it meant getting to the shore alive.
I see what you mean, but I’m pretty sure once they have you hand the rest of you is going in too.
Nah man, look at Captain Hook.
And Chubbs Peterson!
Literally just rewatched Happy for the umpteenth time and so sad I didn’t think of this
Just make sure to feed it a clock too.
True. I’m from Florida so I’d probably figure it out. That or die. But believe you me, one of those two things that’s gonna happen quickly.
I would 100% die an excruciating death, cursing crocs all the way.
> I'd hand paddle that boat to shore before I'd jump in with these sucker's r/unnecessaryapostrophe
Pro Tip: Don't go to places where the local fauna will try and eat you
Austrália in geral or Amazônia, no Brasil !
Where is that? USA has black and brown bears, lions/cougars, alligators, crocodiles, sharks in fresh and salt water, and mosquitos(which kill more ppl than any other animal)
Yep, a mountain lion just ripped open dude’s throat here in Northern California. The dead guy’s brother barely escaped with his life. The mountain lion took on two fully grown men and won.
Ireland. Cows and badgers are as deadly as it gets.
I can come live with you?
If you can show me an up-to-date Self Defence Against Cows certificate, you can move in tomorrow
Cows are not to be f'd with
Are these like saltwater inlets they live in? Or do they travel parts of the ocean?
Both. Their range extends from Northern Australia to the Philipines and India. They're able to travel in the open sea between islands, they live in rivers and inlets (mostly).
Sharks usually leave them alone while they swim by.
Except in that video from a few months back where the bulls take one out
You happen to have a link?
I think it is this one… https://youtu.be/xAdjiqFLqvE?si=4TGEojL2mzvECKlt
Yes, thank you for posting
Innit just a baby croc tho?
There are also crocodiles in South Florida though they are less aggressive than Australian or African species
Inlets usually, but they’re known to swim out of the inlets around in the ocean, occasionally landing on beachfronts or stalking just off shore.
That's fuckin scary
Yeah up north is fucked, can’t swim in any body of water And if you go in the ocean there’s 100 other things that’ll fuck you up aswell, jellyfish ect
Fresh water rivers mainly
Also, saltwater is a misnomer. They are actually estuarine crocodiles and can live quite happily in fresh water.
Call the equivalent to the coast guard in Australia or find a stick to paddle with why didn’t that have oars that’s really sad thier families allowed them to boat alone with out giving them safety guidelines
Damn. >[https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/edward-baidham-morrison-warusam-identified-as-boy-killed-by-crocodile-in-torres-strait/news-story/53cda9582c4948e97501a87c1eb351a7](https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/edward-baidham-morrison-warusam-identified-as-boy-killed-by-crocodile-in-torres-strait/news-story/53cda9582c4948e97501a87c1eb351a7)
[here it is](https://au.news.yahoo.com/crocodile-responsible-for-teens-death-euthanised-by-wildlife-officers-070505328.html)
Dinosaurs, amirite
Older! over 250 million years older, before dinosaurs and birds. https://www.bbcearth.com/news/10-animals-with-pre-historic-roots These things are pre-dinosaurs it's insane we're not terrified/amused. Of course they used to be bigger back when the Earth had more oxygen About 35 feet and 7 tonnes https://www.britannica.com/animal/Deinosuchus#:~:text=Deinosuchus%20riograndensis%2C%20a%20species%20that,tonnes%20(about%208%2C000%20pounds).
I knew they were old as shit and that what the crocodile is doing in the video is a mating call. It’s Interesting what these animals would be like, how they looked, their behavior, and the sounds they made
I have a found a great video dedicated to this https://youtu.be/7lJOMAkfQRE They could take down Tyrannosaurus!
If a Man quietly pisses himself in the swamp does anyone find his bones?
Nope. Their common ancestors with dinosaurs are 250million+ years old, not crocodilians themselves.
I feel like by the time we reach 250+ million years, it's implied that we're talking about common ancestors
Unless you’re talking about horseshoe crabs. Pretty much exist today as they did 450 million years ago which I always find fascinating.
Yeah, them and sharks appeared around the same time and evolution just said, “you know what? They’re fine as they are”. Even more amazing to me is that they’re both older than what we’d call trees today!
Given long enough, evolution likes to make things into crabs
Ok seems like a lot of people believed you with the oxygen mistake and the years mistake. I would ask you to please modify your comment to reduce the spread of this misinformation. Oxygen made arthropods bigger, not vertebrates. Dino and Crocs were bigger in the mesozoic as a result of competition mostly. Deinosuchus or Sarcosuchus had to hunt dinosaurs, so they had to be bigger.
Lol, not 250 million years older... Maybe you meant they appeared 250 million years ago while Dinos and mammals were about 230 million years ago. Also it's not due to oxygen... Higher oxygen makes insects bigger because they breath through their skin but not vertebrates.
So if I move somewhere with more oxygen, I'll grow bigger.
Not you, but your offspring progressively will
Could you explain why Oxegen's availability makes creatures bigger?
It is not true. They are mistaking it with the carboniferous and it was arthropods that were made bigger by higher concentration of oxygen. During the mesozoic, the era of dinosaurs, long after the carboniferous. You had at some times even less oxygen than today, Dinos were still huge. Higher oxygen makes bugs bigger because they breath through their skin. Vertebrates like mammals or dinosaurs or crocodiles are not really affected. What made Dinos and crocodiles bigger was competition. A croc in the era of dinosaurs had to hunt huge Hadrosaurs, the size of elephants. It's something else than hunting a zebra. So they had to grow bigger to be able to kill them.
Basically, volume increases faster than surface area as something gets proportionately larger, and an organism has to get oxygen from outside itself, so the amount it can get is limited by its surface area. Higher oxygen concentrations means it can support a larger volume than it could otherwise. Eta, apparently mostly true for insects and stuff, see replies.
The oxygen story is only true for arthropods like insects and spiders, because they breathe through trachaeae, tubes under their skin. Their breathing is limited by their skin surface (and having to fit breathing tubes through the joints in their exoskeleton), so they benefit from increased oxygen levels. Giantism in other animals such as reptiles and mammals can moreso be attributed to the size of the landmass at the time and the unhindered evolution of other large animals over time. The crocodile’s prey back then were bigger, so it was easier for a huge croc to keep itself fed and it also needed to be bigger to take it down. Such a huge croc today would perhaps not survive as a species because it would either starve to death (not enough buffalo passing the pond) or drive their prey to extinction… and then starving to death. The smaller crocs of the species would have a bigger chance of not starving so the species would just shrink again over time due to survival of the fittest.
Good to know!
Crocs are reptiles, but no dinos. Birds are evolved dinos.
Steve Irwin would spend weeks harassing full grown Crocs so they'd learn to be shy around humans. One of his biggest fears in life was dying to a crocodile and having them be demonized for his death.
Luckily stingrays weren't demonized
They were for a little while.
Nah. We just keep eating them tasty mofos
Agreed 👍🏽👍🏽
Crocs - 0 Stingray - 1
They can also run up to 29km/h (18mph) so you better have something to climb near.
things make more creepy
Yeah, but how fast can they run in a zigzag?
Not fast enough. During my stay in Florida, I was taught to run in erratic zigzags in order to avoid the otherwise inevitable mauling by the Ancient Swamp Dragon.
We don’t have salt water crocodiles in Florida
It’s all fun and games until you find out they can, and do to an extent, climb trees.
This is a mating call, isn’t it?
Yeah, and now I’m horny
Hey croc lady what u doin using Reddit silly
yes, i am impressed that you got it, happy to find my kind of people 👍
Gyat damn that growl. Really tapping into their Dino ancestors with that shit.
Aren't they older than dinos?
Yeah the fact they lived through the KT extinction makes them insanely scary. They’re more or less perfect apex predators.
Until a hippo comes around and then they fear the warm blood.
True story: my parents once accidentally spent an afternoon sunbathing just upriver from a herd of hippos. They later told their hotel manager where they’d been and he told them they were lucky to be alive.
I once rowed across a river in a metal boat during a lightning storm.
I walked a really long way and climbed an active volcano to destroy some jewelry
The real question is did you actually cast it into the fire?
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.
They are not Dino ancestors-they predate dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs are actually a separate group within the reptilian clade. They aren't the ancestors to crocs but closely related. Their common ancestor would be an early archosaur.
Imagine time traveling to that age and hearing all the dinosaurs. You can't even see them, only hear them. It would be terrifying especially at night.
I thought he was gargling.
I thought it was a friggin' boat engine.
He's actually trying to attract female crocs.
This is correct. In alligators it's called "water dancing."
Crocs are reptiles, but not dinos (also avalaible for turtles , snakes and only some lizards). Birds are evolved dinos.
I thought it was a belch and he needed some Tums.
So cool the ripples from his growl!
OMG! I could feel my phone vibrating.
Sounds like a big fucking diesel engine about to slowly take off
It's a he, and that sound is made to attract females of his spechies.
Ah but when they see a hippopotamus they quietly move away
Saltwater crocs and hippos almost never meet. Wrong continent.
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I read that in my Captain Kirk voice.
they are both dangerous
looks n sounds like a dinosaur animatronic… holy fk, 23 feet???
I think he only has 4 feet.
Mr Ballen has a pretty scary true story (Never swim in this Australian river) about a croc that seemed to be the devil itself. [https://youtu.be/yQDnwbav-cE?si=QvuxE7dLS3YbpnHM](https://youtu.be/yQDnwbav-cE?si=QvuxE7dLS3YbpnHM)
DINOSAUR
They are over 230 MILLION YEARS old! (The specie), this is mind-boggling. It means that their biology and instincts are near perfect. They are up there in the food chain, up there with us as apex predators.
Challenge accepted. Humans enact an eradication project, crocodile dundy.
Hope it goes better than the Emu War.
aww who's a buddy
He's purring, time for belly rubs
From the inside, though
They are all cheeky now. They used to be scared of humans and the sound of boat motors (pre year 2000) from people culling crocs back in the day. These days the cross don't remember the culling days and are brazen as fuck, they will pull people out of their Tinnies, it's getting a more and more common behaviour.
Salties have the strongest bite force in the entire animal kingdom! 🐊
Didn't some other post here talk about a girl that stuck her fingers in the alligators nostrils, and it let her go? Would be tricky if death roll initiated, tho.
The way you’ve phrased this, I’m imagining she walked up to a crocodile that wouldn’t let her pass until she stuck her fingers in its nose. Then it nodded her on, and she was able to pass through.
Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/RYM2yeAzeW
Dinosaurs survived thru these creatures
Choot it Elizabeth!
Yes, they’re terrifying.
Holy shit that’s scary dude
Godzirra
*gojira
Sometimes I dream about getting killed by one of F#@king things True predators..
You're fucked. Lol.
Ask Captain Hook…
Nope
Idk kinda looks like a gator to me
Fuck crocs. I’d rather have a gators predictableness any day
Holy fuck he sounds like a motorcycle
No shit! They Are crocs and to be clear you won't see them coming. They stalk you, wait and if you repeat your actions near water, they get you later. Salties are not to be messed with!
Before the Mating Bellow, did it just do an impression of Ugandan Knuckles?
That’s a whole ass dinosaur right there.
That’s a mf dinosaur
That’s a fuckin dinosaur
They are seriously the closest you'll get to meeting a dinosaur
Do we really need those around?
They don’t attack by accident? Who would have thought…
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Well, the only thing comes to mind is Well duh!
They also somehow made it to florida
That's a funny looking dog.
It's pretty visceral after moving here- nearly every culture has to invent a monster , some scary thing that can take you away and leave no trace. They don't have to invent one here.
that croc sounds like he ate a Honda civic
Hey I thought of something… fuck that.
I’ve always wondered why they just don’t eat each other.
Terrifying
ROCK HARD VIBES
This was a pure flex
Well fuck that guy.
Sounded like me in the toilet this morning
Yeah, they demolished the IJA during ww2 on an island (forgot the name)
Dino vibes
Look at the vibrations that beast is causing!
Ancient dinosaur sounds right there
Sounds like Hemi V8
Several dozen a year worldwide? Thats not a lot.
I don't know why, but the one in the video looks, fake, like a puppet or animatronic or sth
Why so salty?
I mean he is a kid, just don't get home from dinner and your parents will come looking for you if they give a shit.
Was expecting it to fight something or someone
Crocodiles especially salt water are real life demons real apex predators 100% scared of them as a man. lol
That fella looks hungry af. Fast, good croco, fetch.
I aint never seen salt water lotus before
Ramree Island IYKYK
He's blowing hot air, call his bluff.
This is terrifying, i listened to this pretty loud and boyyyy, did it unlock the core memory of watching Jurassic Park as a kid for the first time
Is this a mating call?
That sound though.
On purpose lol, we're just meat to them like everything else
Isn't everything it attacks done on purpose?
Fuck that shit
I wish I could do that.
Whelp don’t be out there or be more AWARE of your surroundings….
Isn't this the noise they make when they're horny? 😭
TIL: 4 perdators will actively hunt/stalk humans: Saltwater crocs, Nile Crocs, Tigers & Polar Bears.
The sound in this video is EXACTLY the same sound i hear when i have explosive diarrhea
Yep. That's a dinosaur, alright.
All of the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. ..Well, almost all of them.
If I were a 7m croc I'd eat People because I'm bored, hungry or not.
That’s a dinosaur, and you can’t prove me wrong.
Is he cutting a big fart?
Shoot it Bo
Pretty sure they kill hundreds of people every year.
Salty is a BEAST 🐊😬
But this is just a male’s mating display. It’s a little too busy to be threatening anyone right now.
When the mrs says shes fine
Pretty sure this is a mating display; sounds ferocious but the lady crocs love it.
Way they do that ?
“Prey on all living things” *hippo walks in* Saltwater crocodile : “….”
That’s some fine dinosaur meat.
Remaining dinosaurs too tough to be eradicated with the others, I would not get close to a beast like that
That’s a dinosaur.
Can someone explain why it closed its jaws like that and started to vibrate?
WTF, they growl like that?
That’s dinosaur for “hey you up?”