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Nile Crocodiles

WEIGHT: Average of 148.5 kg DESCRIPTION: Large, lizard-shaped reptile with fourshort legs and a long muscular tail. The hide is rough and scaled. Juvenile Nile crocodiles are dark olive to brown with darkercrossbands on tail and body. Adults are uniformly dark with darker crossbandson tail. SIZE: Averaging approximately 5 m with maximum size ofroughly 6 m WEIGHT: Adults of both sexes may easily exceed 225 kg. FUN FACTS: A crocodile's ectothermic metabolism isextremely efficient. A large crocodile, which may weigh more than 900 kg (2000 lb.), can survive forlong periods of time between meals! If baby crocodiles are in danger, theadult female may pick them up and flip them into her mouth or gular (throat)pouch for protection. When fish are migrating, crocs may huntcooperatively by forming a semi-circle across the river and herding the fish.They then eat the fish that are closest to them. Whenyoung crocodiles are hatching, either parent may help them out of the egg byrolling it between their tongue and palate. This cracks the shell allowing foran easier escape.

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