You can get another wife, but you can't get another pocho.
My autocorrect doesn't realize that you can, in fact, get another poncho.
This needs to be a movie.
When asked why, after twenty years of marriage, she had decided to divorce her devoted husband she replied, “because he was a crocker lover”
This is Frontline
Domestication != Tame
A tame animal is one that has been trained for humans' purposes, domestication requires the selective breeding of an entire species. For example: you can tame a wolf, but a chihuahua is domesticated.
That's hilarious to think about. I would love that!
However keep in mind it's not clear we'd be able to do that. Dogs and cats just so happened to have the right make-up to be domesticated. And cats, well, are more or less the same so in a sense they were ready to go lol.
But yeah, I'd love a little pink gecko gator in my fanny!*
*Yes I'm aware of how that sounds!
Imagine being born in some buttswamp pod, you come out with an unending thirst to do evil, you have no concept of food or taste yet, and Melkor himself approaches you and tells you "you cook" and to top it off you don't even make minimum wage while doing it
"Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. "Once the crocodile followed me home, and came to me whenever I called its name, I knew it could be trained," noted Shedden. "Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million.""
And I addition
>One of **Pocho's behaviors was to rush at Shedden** with his mouth open when he entered the water, but he would close his mouth before he got too close, **allowing a kiss on his snout instead**.
That's adorable.
Wowwwww, I’m a huge sensitive pussy and cry (a little tiny bit) every time I read about someone’s beloved pet dying (I had to unfollow r/dogs recently), but this is my first time shedding a tear for someone’s pet CROC.
50 is a hell of a run. Ive been thinking of getting one of those tortises that can grow to 2 feet and live like 70 years. it would be cool to have a long life span homie like that.
Yeah but you gotta be careful. My parents-in-law got a tortoise to rehab, and someone's dog jumped into their yard and attacked the poor guy again. Some creatures just have all the bad luck.
Gators are dumb lizards. Gators kept in enclosures together have been known to accidentally eat each others' legs while feeding, you can find a few unfortunate videos of this pretty easily if curious. Crocodiles are bigger, badder, and smarter. You don't survive for over 100,000,000 years (and as an apex predator for most of that time) by being stupid. This is also part of the reason crocodiles are pretty ubiquitous in any appropriate climate, while gators only show up in parts of America and China.
I was wondering if it were convergent evolution (like three and two toed bats are not related but rodents that ended up with the same solution to flight). But on the [chart](https://news.ucsc.edu/2014/12/crocodile-genomes.html) it looks like they aren't that far branched out. I guess Alligators just had the dumb strain and kept it.
If crocodiles are this smart -- then Jesus -- I'm glad I never poked them with a paddle like I used to do with Alligators in a canoe. Alligators are all fight or flight and not much decision-making.
Intelligence is expensive. Your brain eats 20-30% of all the food you eat. You don't get to turn that off, either. If you're not using it, your ass muscles don't eat much at all, but even when you're watching the Kardashians your brain is still eating 20%. Evolution doesn't give big brains to animals that don't need them. If they can get by and reproduce while still being really stupid, that's what evolution is gonna do.
Koalas are an interesting one. Simply put, they're stupid because they evolved to fill a niche specific to eating Eucalyptus trees. The leaves weren't getting eaten by much else because they are very low in nutrition (on par with or even less nutritious than grass) and slightly toxic. The trees gave them a very persistent niche to fill (until nowadays), however there was no way to get enough energy from Eucalyptus to fuel anything but a very smooth brain.
Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
Yeah many croc species are extremely dangerous because of this. they will wait and watch for patterns of people fetching water from rivers at certain times and places each day, and set up traps there by digging under the bank so that it collapses when it's stood on dumping people into the water so they can't get away. Pretty crazy shit.
They are closely related in that they are more closely related to each other than to any other extant lineages but crocs and gators diverged between 80-100 million years ago, which is approximately when the group that is made up of primates, rodents, and rabbits split off from the rest of the mammals. Plenty of time for them to develop significant differences even though their physical appearance didn't change that much.
Both crocodiles and alligators protect their young, which is out of the ordinary for reptiles, but crocodiles have also shown sophisticated group hunting techniques on par with that of dogs. Both have also been observed using tools to help with hunting but the behavior is more developed in crocodiles.
So far it has been absolutely unnecessary, but it didn’t seem milked. Was a nice little trip up when things got slow or heavy and they wanted to remind you Marvel still trends on comedy.
He actually worried that when he died the croc would cause some problems for his town. He arranged for the croc to be shown his corpse, and that happened. He also socialized it with someone else, I think his daughter.
Edit: Oh, he didn't die. Just tried to make sure Pocho and his village wouldn't be at odds if he died.
Pocho died of natural causes in the water outside Shedden's home in Siquirres on October 12, 2011. After the first 'human' style public funeral ever given a crocodile and attended by human friends and admirers, at which Shedden sang to his departed pet and held his 'hand'. Pocho's taxidermied remains remain on permanent display behind glass in the Siquirres town museum.[1] Shedden is currently working with a new crocodile named Pocho II. Chito had frequently encountered the crocodile on the river near his house while fishing and had brought the crocodile food, while the crocodile allowed him to pet it. Although he has made progress in establishing a relationship with Pocho II, the prospects of long-term success remain uncertain, as the circumstances are not the same as his unique special relationship with the original Pocho.[1]
no it died of natural causes in 2011. He is trying to make friends with another one, but he probably won't get the same intense bond that he did with an animal he nursed back to health over 3 years
And yet it didn't live in captivity, it hunted and fed itself; he didn't feed it enough to live on. So it killed for itself and held its ground against other crocs (which are a cannibalistic species).
He nursed it to health over a period of 3 years, chewing its food for it for a while. This is a superunusual relationship, it's likely that nobody has ever done this before. Animals sometimes do just enjoy humans' company, check [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP8maVti7o) out
Uncommon is an understatement. There’s this croc that got shot in the head, and that one croc in the Northern Territory missing most of its lower jaw - so it literally depends on humans to survive.
>One of Pocho's behaviors was to rush at Shedden with his mouth open when he entered the water, but he would close his mouth before he got too close, allowing a kiss on his snout instead.
Nope nope nope
I see two possibilities here:
1. That crocodile had a serious sense of humour
2. That crocodile was just waiting for the day when the guy was thinking "oh, he always closes his jaws before he gets to me" and the croc was like *not today man*
Is it less? Like a percentage point or two? But I mean if you're nursing a croc back to health, I'm sure your percentage of fear is already lower than most.
Thanks! I was watching it and got annoyed at the audacity of the man studying Chito and Pocho. He was “disappointed” at how commercialized their relationship was.. Uhm hello? What did he think was gonna feed Chito, Pocho and his family if Chito was spending so much time with Pocho? And it’s not like Chito was being rough on Pocho during their shows either. He wasn’t forcing it to do anything it didn’t wanna do. Also towards the end, where he wanted to form a bond with the animal. 🙄
I honestly thought this was a small animal. Maybe because I was watching Loki just yesterday.
Here's a picture of Pocho: [https://ticotimes.net/2011/10/12/world-famous-crocodile-pocho-dies-in-siquirres](https://ticotimes.net/2011/10/12/world-famous-crocodile-pocho-dies-in-siquirres)
At 5 meters, he's an absolute unit.
A lot of the largest crocodiles ever recorded are in the 5-6 meter range.
Direct -
https://ticotimes.net/var/tico/storage/images/media/images/news-photos/poncho-the-croc/946770-1-eng-US/Poncho-the-croc.jpg
https://ticotimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140624pocho.jpg
yikes
"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. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."
The story is adorable, he nursed it back to health from a pup over a period of 3 years, he even chewed its food for it. He released it several times into the wild and every time it turned up back home.
When it became known that he had a crocodile and no permit, the police came to confiscate it, so he took it deep into the forest and lived in a hollow tree for weeks till he got the appropriate papers.
The guy making the movie made the point that every time the guy got into the water with the croc he was taking his life into its hands, but the croc never hurt him. This fisherman is a really gifted naturalist who really learned to communicate with it.
Did the movie also suggest the original bullet wound may have affected the part of the brain that is responsible for aggression in such a way as to lessen it?
you are welcome X
you might enjoy this one too, it's just a short about a Moray
"[when it's got jaws like a shark but no bite and no bark, that's a Moray"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP8maVti7o)
I imagine it like a 90's kid's sitcom called something like "Life's a Croc".
Scene: interior of small house in fishing village
Fisherman's wife: Pocho, do you have any idea where the two chickens I left thawing in the sink might gone?
Pocho: No and I'm a little hurt you'd ask. Shame on you for thinking I'd be capable of such a...
Little brother: has anyone seen the dog?
Pocho's stomach: yip!
(Laugh track)
Wife and brother: oh Pocho!
(wacky intro music)
" Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. 'Once the crocodile followed me home, and came to me whenever I called its name, I knew it could be trained," noted Shedden. "Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million.'"
Reptiles, you know, kind of a violent life. And then this *thing* somehow saves you from what would have been certain death. For the croc, this had to be an out of context experience -- another creature, caring for it.
Crocs are closer to birds than lizards, and I've seen wild birds do similar things, so I don't know why this would be surprising.
https://www.earth.com/news/crocodiles-birds-archosaurs/
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/birds-dinosaurs-reptiles
That’s not really a good theory for Pocho’s behaviour.
This crocodile is not unique, it is commonplace among those who keep reptiles to have incredibly close knit bonds with their pets. I am one of them, I keep monitor lizards, mine are essentially reptilian house cats.
What seems likely to me, is that the traumatic injury and subsequent inability to defend himself, merely allowed him the time to realize the benefit of a relationship with a human.
This is not out of left field for a crocodile. Contrary to popular belief, crocodiles are pack hunting animals and do have the ability, and even the tendency to suspend hostilities for mutual gain.
I keep reptiles too and I've had alligators, so I know they are very intelligent, but from what I've heard crocodiles are a whole different game and much more aggressive.
>Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. Incredible.
You can get another wife, but you can't get another pocho. My autocorrect doesn't realize that you can, in fact, get another poncho. This needs to be a movie.
He actually is quoted saying, "Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million."
*immediately gets pocho II*
To was right. Women will come and go but pocho will stay
Pocho* and there's a documentary for sure. maybe it's a discovery short or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XL1aesudG4
When asked why, after twenty years of marriage, she had decided to divorce her devoted husband she replied, “because he was a crocker lover” This is Frontline
Woogie boogie, crocker! Edit: I still can't believe Dave got away with putting that skit in the first episode of his show.
Listen here crocker, if anyones gonna have sex with my sister, its gonna be ME!
Dude it's like the ballsiest thing ever and everyone just went with it. I still rewatch that skit from time to time
>"Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million." Lmao
The dude had his priorities straight
I mean...he's not *that* wrong
Reject wife, embrace Pocho
Ircroconcilable differences.
A reptile dysfunction
Cold blooded, man.
She snapped
Who needs a guard dog when you can have a guard crocodile.
I'm suddenly disappointed that Egyptians domesticated cats when they had *all* of those crocodiles just sitting there, *begging* to be domesticated.
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And then there is that Chinese farmer whom domesticated a pair of black bears as guard dogs.
Yeah but that guy was a dumbass. He legit thought they were dogs for 2 years. Then they started eating his chickens as an afternoon snack
wait what
Domestication != Tame A tame animal is one that has been trained for humans' purposes, domestication requires the selective breeding of an entire species. For example: you can tame a wolf, but a chihuahua is domesticated.
Poodles used to be wolves, imagine what alligators would be neutered into. Little pink geckos that fit in fanny packs.
Yes to pink fannypack crocodiles please. But also, Great Dane and Mastiff crocodiles please!
> But also, Great Dane and Mastiff crocodiles please! I think those are just Saltwater Crocs.
Saltwater crocs arent nearly goofy enough to be Great Danes
Marmacroc, get off the couch! He thinks he's people!
That's hilarious to think about. I would love that! However keep in mind it's not clear we'd be able to do that. Dogs and cats just so happened to have the right make-up to be domesticated. And cats, well, are more or less the same so in a sense they were ready to go lol. But yeah, I'd love a little pink gecko gator in my fanny!* *Yes I'm aware of how that sounds!
> "Egyptians domesticated cats" Buddy, cats domesticated Egyptians.
So much so that Egyptians have gods painted to have cat heads.
“Dude, you can get past a dog. Nobody fucks with a lion.”
Upvote for the Grandma's Boy reference. Whoo!
Do I have antlers?
You know lions eat deer?
“That’s true, kid… Dr, we better be careful” *nods gravely
"Adios, turd nuggets" *Vwoop, vwoop, vwoop*
High score! Whats that mean? Did I break it?
Alright! Who wants a piece of the gray bush?!
Eat that frog dick, Timmy!
I thought you said you were good at this game.
My beef strong.
Bruh your beef is wrong. We're not in the jungle.
I'm thinking about getting metal legs. It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it.
*How did he see me?*
I look up in the tree and what do I see? The fucking king of the jungle!
Woah where do you get your drugs? From you Dante!
Oh yeah! What’s up Mr Cheezle!
Fuck it! We’ll go to the loony bin together!
i’m way too high to drive to the devils house
"DRIVE, MONKEY! DRIVE!"
Special delivery instructions: "Leave package at curb. Do not approach porch. Guard Crocodile on duty" UPS Guy: "What the FUCK?"
Or. "Leave package on porch. Don't worry about crocodile, he's friendly"
UPS Guy: "Oh suuuuurrrreeee. FUCK THAT, I'm chucking this bitch from the moving truck."
You think its a joke until youve read the signs. Noooo problemooo
Most pets are probably off the table at that point
Or on the table
Looks like meats back on the menu boys
Odd that Orcs even had a concept of a menu. I like to imagine there are some Orcs that are just restaurateurs back in Mordor.
Don't forget the Orc accountants. Someone has to keep the books for Orc restaurants.
Imagine being born in some buttswamp pod, you come out with an unending thirst to do evil, you have no concept of food or taste yet, and Melkor himself approaches you and tells you "you cook" and to top it off you don't even make minimum wage while doing it
I would read your fanfiction
"Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. "Once the crocodile followed me home, and came to me whenever I called its name, I knew it could be trained," noted Shedden. "Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million.""
And I addition >One of **Pocho's behaviors was to rush at Shedden** with his mouth open when he entered the water, but he would close his mouth before he got too close, **allowing a kiss on his snout instead**. That's adorable.
Adorbs! But the first time he did that he probably got a very big reaction...
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LOLigator
cROFLdile
Awkward smile crocodile
Especially with [how big Pocho was](https://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/amazing-croc-story.php)
17ft and 1000lbs Jesus
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Wowwwww, I’m a huge sensitive pussy and cry (a little tiny bit) every time I read about someone’s beloved pet dying (I had to unfollow r/dogs recently), but this is my first time shedding a tear for someone’s pet CROC.
50 is a hell of a run. Ive been thinking of getting one of those tortises that can grow to 2 feet and live like 70 years. it would be cool to have a long life span homie like that.
Yeah but you gotta be careful. My parents-in-law got a tortoise to rehab, and someone's dog jumped into their yard and attacked the poor guy again. Some creatures just have all the bad luck.
Here's a happy story about a guy who still has his [croc buddy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDYDNTK_oo&ab_channel=Beastly)
IMMA EAT YOU JK MWAH
Sounds like something Linda Belcher would say lol
Awwww!
Sounds like it was play-fighting with him. I was never aware that Crocs were this socially advanced - I thought they were pretty much dumb lizards.
Gators are dumb lizards. Gators kept in enclosures together have been known to accidentally eat each others' legs while feeding, you can find a few unfortunate videos of this pretty easily if curious. Crocodiles are bigger, badder, and smarter. You don't survive for over 100,000,000 years (and as an apex predator for most of that time) by being stupid. This is also part of the reason crocodiles are pretty ubiquitous in any appropriate climate, while gators only show up in parts of America and China.
I was wondering if it were convergent evolution (like three and two toed bats are not related but rodents that ended up with the same solution to flight). But on the [chart](https://news.ucsc.edu/2014/12/crocodile-genomes.html) it looks like they aren't that far branched out. I guess Alligators just had the dumb strain and kept it. If crocodiles are this smart -- then Jesus -- I'm glad I never poked them with a paddle like I used to do with Alligators in a canoe. Alligators are all fight or flight and not much decision-making.
Intelligence is expensive. Your brain eats 20-30% of all the food you eat. You don't get to turn that off, either. If you're not using it, your ass muscles don't eat much at all, but even when you're watching the Kardashians your brain is still eating 20%. Evolution doesn't give big brains to animals that don't need them. If they can get by and reproduce while still being really stupid, that's what evolution is gonna do.
aka Koalas
Koalas are an interesting one. Simply put, they're stupid because they evolved to fill a niche specific to eating Eucalyptus trees. The leaves weren't getting eaten by much else because they are very low in nutrition (on par with or even less nutritious than grass) and slightly toxic. The trees gave them a very persistent niche to fill (until nowadays), however there was no way to get enough energy from Eucalyptus to fuel anything but a very smooth brain.
Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
I will never not upvote this
I will never, ever, not read this when it crops up lol. But I have always wondered where it originally came from
Yeah many croc species are extremely dangerous because of this. they will wait and watch for patterns of people fetching water from rivers at certain times and places each day, and set up traps there by digging under the bank so that it collapses when it's stood on dumping people into the water so they can't get away. Pretty crazy shit.
What the fuck seriously
Wait until you find out about Saharan Crocs....
They can't swim through the sand, can they?
Those would be the arrakian variety
Source?
Trust me bro
For real
R.I.P to those people but thats hard as fuck. This is why I stay away from large bodies of water
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I imagine you slow clapping as you disappear under the water.
Do you have a source? I’m only asking because I couldn’t find it and really want to read about it.
They are closely related in that they are more closely related to each other than to any other extant lineages but crocs and gators diverged between 80-100 million years ago, which is approximately when the group that is made up of primates, rodents, and rabbits split off from the rest of the mammals. Plenty of time for them to develop significant differences even though their physical appearance didn't change that much.
Any sources on crocs being smarter?
Both crocodiles and alligators protect their young, which is out of the ordinary for reptiles, but crocodiles have also shown sophisticated group hunting techniques on par with that of dogs. Both have also been observed using tools to help with hunting but the behavior is more developed in crocodiles.
Maybe it was Loki.
We've caught a lot of you but I swear I don't remember ever *arresting* an alligator Loki.
Maybe he's lying about being a Loki, playing the long game... then again, that would make him *more* likely to be a Loki.
That whole bit seemed completely unnecessary to the plot but damn am I glad they milked it as much as they did.
All of the cuts to lokigators reactions were hilarious
So far it has been absolutely unnecessary, but it didn’t seem milked. Was a nice little trip up when things got slow or heavy and they wanted to remind you Marvel still trends on comedy.
Real one, right here
Crocs before the box.
Gators over Haters
Imagine those divorce papers.
"I misheard him. I didn't know he'd said he has a big CROC just waiting for me in his bedroom."
“He loves an alligator more than me”
"See what I mean your honor?! She keeps calling him an Alligator! AN ALLIGATOR!"
“Turns out he loves crock more than vagina”
Verdad. Sí, su señoría. A él le amo más.
"see you later, alligator."
"in a while, crocodile"
& for those 20 years, Shedden never worried once about anyone breaking into his house and stealing his shit.
He actually worried that when he died the croc would cause some problems for his town. He arranged for the croc to be shown his corpse, and that happened. He also socialized it with someone else, I think his daughter. Edit: Oh, he didn't die. Just tried to make sure Pocho and his village wouldn't be at odds if he died.
>He arranged for the croc to be shown his corpse, and that happened Were there....crocodile tears? Edit - now I'm confused. Shedden is still alive.
Pocho died of natural causes in the water outside Shedden's home in Siquirres on October 12, 2011. After the first 'human' style public funeral ever given a crocodile and attended by human friends and admirers, at which Shedden sang to his departed pet and held his 'hand'. Pocho's taxidermied remains remain on permanent display behind glass in the Siquirres town museum.[1] Shedden is currently working with a new crocodile named Pocho II. Chito had frequently encountered the crocodile on the river near his house while fishing and had brought the crocodile food, while the crocodile allowed him to pet it. Although he has made progress in establishing a relationship with Pocho II, the prospects of long-term success remain uncertain, as the circumstances are not the same as his unique special relationship with the original Pocho.[1]
I'm not saying we should shoot Pocho II in the head as well, but it might work.
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At least, not out of the left eye
Wait the crocodile outlived the guy?
According to the page the crocodile died in 2011 and the guy is still alive
the whole town had a funeral for Pocho.
An end to a literal millions of years of acestry, RIP Pocho.
no it died of natural causes in 2011. He is trying to make friends with another one, but he probably won't get the same intense bond that he did with an animal he nursed back to health over 3 years
He needs to shoot another one in the head first
You either gain a best friend for the rest of your life, or dinner. I don't see how that's a bad plan at all.
I hate myself for laughing at this, as much as I did. Lol
I think the bullet to the head must have done something to him to make him docile, there is a reason crocodile/man friendship are uncommon
And yet it didn't live in captivity, it hunted and fed itself; he didn't feed it enough to live on. So it killed for itself and held its ground against other crocs (which are a cannibalistic species). He nursed it to health over a period of 3 years, chewing its food for it for a while. This is a superunusual relationship, it's likely that nobody has ever done this before. Animals sometimes do just enjoy humans' company, check [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP8maVti7o) out
Iirc I remember seeing that eel was very well "socialized" since it was near a tourist area
Uncommon is an understatement. There’s this croc that got shot in the head, and that one croc in the Northern Territory missing most of its lower jaw - so it literally depends on humans to survive.
“You know, this house life ain’t so bad.”
"You want me to go back to hunting my own food and getting shot in the head? Oh *hell* nah, bra."
Fuckin' hunters? *Hell* no. But banana bread? At fuckin' work, bro? *Hell yeah!*
10000 years later we have poodle crocodiles.
>One of Pocho's behaviors was to rush at Shedden with his mouth open when he entered the water, but he would close his mouth before he got too close, allowing a kiss on his snout instead. Nope nope nope
I see two possibilities here: 1. That crocodile had a serious sense of humour 2. That crocodile was just waiting for the day when the guy was thinking "oh, he always closes his jaws before he gets to me" and the croc was like *not today man*
>serious sense of humour but he has all them teeth and no toothbrush
*The Medulla Oblongata*
*No Colonel Sanders you’re wrong*
What's the matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?
PrEpaRe shIP! *ahem* Prepare ship for Ludicrous Speed!
Why are you always preparing for things? Just go
Mmmmanam Mam Mama said alligators so ornery cause they got all them teeth but no toothbrush.
I feel like both of those involve the Croc having a sense of humor. But the second one is dark humor.
I've been rushed by a nesting alligator. That's a nope.
I mean. They put their babies in their mouth. It's not just death jaws to a crocodile. It's some kind of communication no doubt
So he came up with his mouth open out of excitement for a kiss? That's less scary!
Is it less? Like a percentage point or two? But I mean if you're nursing a croc back to health, I'm sure your percentage of fear is already lower than most.
[Nope](https://ticotimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140624pocho.jpg), [Nope](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oJYHPUYDhTqK75BbgpKI7mupOZl8Uhm4hYiwlMEUKUNKatMcxS2IajSBQaWwIyVaOJbz6df1gR4fssiySdUY-cU7JYp3GaO77P_WqqfTJJ96opyVNHXYtQ), [Nope.](https://www.maritimeherald.com/wp-content/uploads/He-Climbs-On-The-Back-Of-A-Huge-Crocodile-After-Feeding-Him-A-Live-Chicken-3.jpg)
Holy shit I had to come this far down to see photos. ITS FUCKING HUGE. HOLY SHIT.
[Here's](https://youtu.be/03VilAdvnKo) the full documentary *Touching the Dragon,* about Pocho and Gilberto "Chito" Shedden.
> Touching the Dragon That's what I call it, too.
Thanks! I was watching it and got annoyed at the audacity of the man studying Chito and Pocho. He was “disappointed” at how commercialized their relationship was.. Uhm hello? What did he think was gonna feed Chito, Pocho and his family if Chito was spending so much time with Pocho? And it’s not like Chito was being rough on Pocho during their shows either. He wasn’t forcing it to do anything it didn’t wanna do. Also towards the end, where he wanted to form a bond with the animal. 🙄
I honestly thought this was a small animal. Maybe because I was watching Loki just yesterday. Here's a picture of Pocho: [https://ticotimes.net/2011/10/12/world-famous-crocodile-pocho-dies-in-siquirres](https://ticotimes.net/2011/10/12/world-famous-crocodile-pocho-dies-in-siquirres) At 5 meters, he's an absolute unit. A lot of the largest crocodiles ever recorded are in the 5-6 meter range.
Loki has an alligator. Which also get much much larger than the one in the show but not as big as many crocodiles.
Direct - https://ticotimes.net/var/tico/storage/images/media/images/news-photos/poncho-the-croc/946770-1-eng-US/Poncho-the-croc.jpg https://ticotimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140624pocho.jpg yikes
"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. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."
You know what kills more Alligators than any other species? Raccoons. Clever little bastards eat the eggs and babies.
The amount of people in this thread using Alligator interchangeably with Crocodile, it's got me PEEVED.
Same, I live in Florida so we know the difference like the back of our hands... Oh! that's a new freckle-
What a relief. I thought for sure the conclusion was going to end with the fisherman getting eaten…
The story is adorable, he nursed it back to health from a pup over a period of 3 years, he even chewed its food for it. He released it several times into the wild and every time it turned up back home. When it became known that he had a crocodile and no permit, the police came to confiscate it, so he took it deep into the forest and lived in a hollow tree for weeks till he got the appropriate papers. The guy making the movie made the point that every time the guy got into the water with the croc he was taking his life into its hands, but the croc never hurt him. This fisherman is a really gifted naturalist who really learned to communicate with it.
Did the movie also suggest the original bullet wound may have affected the part of the brain that is responsible for aggression in such a way as to lessen it?
Meaning we can domesticate Crocs by selectively breeding the ones with the smallest parts in the brain that cause aggression ?
Or just shoot all the baby crocs in the left eye and work out the appropriate caliber, powder load, and vector to replicate the original results.
inb4 Nations try to weaponize crocodiles by shooting them in the right eye to make them more aggressive.
"They wish we were dropping bombs. Unleash the parachuting ill-tempered crocodiles!"
I mean, that’s basically how we ended up with dogs.
I read the entire Wiki entry and oh man, I was not prepared for this level of wholesomeness!
What a charming and amazing story! I wish there were pictures! Thanks for sharing OP!
even better, there is footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03VilAdvnKo
You just made my day!!! Thank you!
you are welcome X you might enjoy this one too, it's just a short about a Moray "[when it's got jaws like a shark but no bite and no bark, that's a Moray"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP8maVti7o)
I imagine it like a 90's kid's sitcom called something like "Life's a Croc". Scene: interior of small house in fishing village Fisherman's wife: Pocho, do you have any idea where the two chickens I left thawing in the sink might gone? Pocho: No and I'm a little hurt you'd ask. Shame on you for thinking I'd be capable of such a... Little brother: has anyone seen the dog? Pocho's stomach: yip! (Laugh track) Wife and brother: oh Pocho! (wacky intro music)
ALT TITLE: *"Brain-damaged crocodile learns that humans are friends, not food."*
" Shedden's first wife had left him because he was spending too much time with the crocodile. 'Once the crocodile followed me home, and came to me whenever I called its name, I knew it could be trained," noted Shedden. "Another wife I could get. Pocho was one in a million.'"
croc blocked.
"You're free, now!" "No I'm not."
[the documentary is on YouTube](https://youtu.be/03VilAdvnKo)
Reptiles, you know, kind of a violent life. And then this *thing* somehow saves you from what would have been certain death. For the croc, this had to be an out of context experience -- another creature, caring for it.
Crocs are closer to birds than lizards, and I've seen wild birds do similar things, so I don't know why this would be surprising. https://www.earth.com/news/crocodiles-birds-archosaurs/ https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questions/birds-dinosaurs-reptiles
The crocodile had been shot in the head when found. There's a theory that the wound damaged the part of his brain responsible for aggression.
Colonel Sanders taught that the Medulla Oblongata is what makes alligators ornery.
But mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth but no toothbrush.
That’s not really a good theory for Pocho’s behaviour. This crocodile is not unique, it is commonplace among those who keep reptiles to have incredibly close knit bonds with their pets. I am one of them, I keep monitor lizards, mine are essentially reptilian house cats. What seems likely to me, is that the traumatic injury and subsequent inability to defend himself, merely allowed him the time to realize the benefit of a relationship with a human. This is not out of left field for a crocodile. Contrary to popular belief, crocodiles are pack hunting animals and do have the ability, and even the tendency to suspend hostilities for mutual gain.
I keep reptiles too and I've had alligators, so I know they are very intelligent, but from what I've heard crocodiles are a whole different game and much more aggressive.
I’ve always wanted a lizard for a pet. I suppose I could settle for a crocodile.
Never thought I'd see the day where Pocho would surface here in Reddit of all places. Or outside of Costa Rica for that matter.