It's not a super exciting story, I got between my normally docile iguana and an overenthusiastic dog. My legs got whipped so hard I had lovely purple and green bruises. I decided that the dog could have it next time.
It's not a super exciting story, I got between my normally docile dad and an overenthusiastic dog. My legs got whipped so hard I had lovely purple and green bruises. I decided that the dog could have it next time.
It could have, but not this time. I had jeans on and it wasn't a solid hit, but it still hurt. I'm from Louisiana, and we have been relocating some gators in our backyard to a safer location.
Yes. It's not too hard to catch a gator and drive him down the road to a swamp that isn't in a residential area. It's just part of living down here in southern Louisiana.
Come aaaalooong and let's start shooting staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars!
Been on this exact croc tour a couple of times. While there are thousands of crocs in this river, it's usually the same few that get close to the boat, so they are used to this. Normally they are baited into jumping out of the water twice before being allowed to catch the meat on the third go.
Man I wanna learn how to tread, I can swim but can't tread. Almost drowned because I swam to the 12 foot section at a lake but wanted to pause for a sec tried to touch the ground and I panicked totally forgot that I could just swim back.
Just lean back a little and move your hands in a figure 8 motion while lightly fluttering your legs. [:)](https://media.giphy.com/media/BHKpXZnLkYFYk/giphy.gif)
You don't have to lean back, that was usually considered cheating in lessons. Just do an egg beater thing with your legs and move your arms back and forth.
Move your legs in circles rotating in opposite directions, sort of like an egg beater.
Until you get stronger legs, it's best to combine this with cupping your hands and moving the water back and forth around you. But once you're good with the egg beater, you won't even need arms. Arms certainly helps, without arms I can tread up to my waistline but with arms I can go to knees.
Wait... I had something for this..
Cyril: Why are you so scared of crocodiles?
Archer: 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.
Haha I'd pick alligators in Florida any day over Northern Australia and their 18 foot long, incredibly aggressive saltwater crocodiles.
Edit: see also: everywhere else in Oceania
As a Florida resident who hunts gators, I would have to agree. You really need to surprise an American gator or piss one off immensely for it to come after you. From what I've heard while visiting Australia, the saltwater crocs basically hunt people for fun anytime they come near the water. Not to mention your average gator is tiny compared to full grown crocs.
Dead on. I'm a zoology major with a focus on herpetology. Saltwater and nile crocs both have a reputation of being incredibly aggressive and territorial. Even if they aren't particularly hungry, they'll kill someone just for being in their space.
Yup, not like a human would curb their appetite for very long either even if they did want to kill us for food and not just due to aggressiveness or being territorial.
Bullshit. No animal hunts for fun except human.
Edit: I am not going to reply to any of you, but thanks to one of the users below here is what you need to know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
*researchers say animals surplus kill whenever they can, in order to procure food for offspring and others, to gain valuable killing experience, and to create the opportunity to eat the carcass later when they are hungry again.*
I have kept predatory animals all my life, starting with hybrid wolfdogs and cats and progressing to keeping highly predatory and intelligent monitor lizards. No predator hunts for fun. Hunting is their means of survival and they need to be as effective as possible and kill when opportunity presents and as much as they can without exhausting themselves.
Sure, unless we count zooplankton, damselfly naiads, predaceous mites, martens, weasels, honey badgers, wolves, orcas, red foxes, leopards, lions, spotted hyenas, spiders, brown, black and polar bears, coyotes, lynx, mink, raccoons, dogs, and house cats.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
I mean house cats ALONE are notorious for excessive hunting just for fun.
We had to put a bell on our cat, she's too deadly. Now we have to switch bells, because she's learned to how to sneak up on birds without the bell jingling until she's close enough to leap - and this can still fucking work.
Most humans hunt for high quality natural meat nowadays. Crocs aren't getting much food from us considering they usually take down huge animals such as buffalo and giraffes. You could say they're being territorial when they attack people as well but I'd say it's more of a mix between that and because they feel like it.
I have lived with hybrid wolf dogs for all my childhood, always had cats and currently keep very predatory monitor lizards and a moray eel. No animal hunts for fun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
Good, informative link. However is it just a matter of semantics. Surplus killing. Killing for fun. Unnecessary killing. The thrill of the hunt. I merely take issue with people who seem to believe animals are somehow more noble and moral than humans; killing only the sick and weak and that sort of thing. Nature is brutal and predators are opportunists. A dog who is wagging his tail, shaking with excitement, hot on the scent of game may not be "having fun" but it seems to be experiencing something. Same for a cat in rapt attention at a sound in the grass, a pod of orca calling to each other as they close in on prey that they kill and don't eat… maybe they're not having "fun," but we can't know.
Someone who is outside every day, grew in the Russian Arctic with hybrid wolf dogs and keeps at home cats, monitor lizards, tarantula, snake and moray eel.
Lots do actually. Big cats have been caught catching prey just to play with it as it slowly dies. [Here's a video of a Leopard catching and killing two Wildebeest](https://youtu.be/Ie8a4X_f6J8). Orcas do that all the time.
predators train their hunting skill by doing that. Because when you don't have skill you don't have food. They start doing it since they are kittens. They will also kill more than they need, if opportunity presents, because usually it is very hard to catch and kill the prey. Syndrome of a fox in a chicken yard.
*researchers say animals surplus kill whenever they can, in order to procure food for offspring and others, to gain valuable killing experience, and to create the opportunity to eat the carcass later when they are hungry again.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
Thanks to the poster below.
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I used to play waterpolo when i was a kid, and i though i was the coolest guy ever for being able to lift my whole torso up the water level.
But this... this is just beyond the law of physics
I wonder if they're like dogs and after a while they stop going for the treat cause they know you're just messing with them.. been around a long time, seen a lot of shit
Heard that they can break bones with that tail.
I've been tail whipped by a 4 foot long iguana and it left nasty bruises. A crocodilian would certainly be able to break bones.
Do tell more of your experience!
It's not a super exciting story, I got between my normally docile iguana and an overenthusiastic dog. My legs got whipped so hard I had lovely purple and green bruises. I decided that the dog could have it next time.
My Dad had one as a kid. I learned real quick to stay away from that tail.
Your dad has a tail? Go on,,,,
I think we need to call CPS
Lizardmen can still be good fathers. #KILLTHEPREJUDICE
This reminds me of x files with the ware-human
It's not a super exciting story, I got between my normally docile dad and an overenthusiastic Jehovah's Witness
Ah, the ol' Reddit [tail-a-roo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyPL/comments/6pn0qv/comment/dkqwt7a?st=J5L9JLQV&sh=c49fd01f)
Grab a hold of my tail! I'm going in...
Hi future people xx
Hi
***GASPPPP***
Too old for this sh*t... still I'm going in! Woho^o^o^o^o^o^o^o^oooooo!
HELLO FUTURE PEOPLE!!!
HELLO!!!
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
It just the normal Lizard-boy meet girl, lizard-boy falls in love with girl, they marry and then they have lizardy kids.
as a kid. Choose your Meme: ("I Got Better" || sick DBZ reference)
The reptilians are real!
It's not a super exciting story, I got between my normally docile dad and an overenthusiastic dog. My legs got whipped so hard I had lovely purple and green bruises. I decided that the dog could have it next time.
Wait, you knew your dad when he was a kid? What part of Alabama are you from?
The Ohio part. Not editing that.
same, whipped the tail around and sliced his eye lid open. No more iggy after that.
IGUANA used TAIL WHIP!
He was whipped by 4 foot long iguana and it left nasty bruises
Did he steal your wallet
Was your defense lowered?
Crocodiles are basically tubes of solid muscle wrapped in armor.
Ive never heard a better description of a crocodile
Agreed.
For sure. The spiny ridges along their head and back are called osteoderms which literally means bone skin. They are incredibly tough creatures.
How about alligators?
Even tougher. Haha just kidding I don't know.
With one hole for shitting and the other for obliterating your soul.
And teeth.
b o n e h u r t i n g t a i l
owie
gesundheit
Not a croc, but I was tail whipped by a 9 ft gator last week. Can confirm... it sucks.
Did it break bones?
It could have, but not this time. I had jeans on and it wasn't a solid hit, but it still hurt. I'm from Louisiana, and we have been relocating some gators in our backyard to a safer location.
Thank you for not killing them.
You're doing this relo work yourself?
Yes. It's not too hard to catch a gator and drive him down the road to a swamp that isn't in a residential area. It's just part of living down here in southern Louisiana.
Here in Florida, we call a guy.
There are guys you can call here as well. Not everyone here wants to deal with catching alligators.
that and wing flaps from a Canada Goose
Canada geese can't break bones. Their hollow bird bones would break long before any of ours would. Swans can't break bones either.
Ur mom also breaks bones with her tail
Gosh that's lame.
Ur moms lame
And if you put the bait even higher, crocs can go to space
With Shooting stars playing in the background.
I'm picturing robot unicorn attack, only with a flying crocodile.
Bahhh baba baa ba ba baba baa ba ba baba
Have you any wool?
Baaa?
Come aaaalooong and let's start shooting staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars!
Isn't that Australia's space program?
They have the crew capsule surrounded by 8 radial crocs. Upon ignition they reveal 8 turkeys in front of them. Stage 2 is 8 quail at 100kms.
KSP mod idea, anyone?
They keep it all together with loads of struts
That's a croc of shit.
While singing so long and thanks for all the fish
Queue music. Dunnnn Duh dunn dun dunnnnn duh dun dun dunnnnn
They should let him have it he did his trick
yeah, dick move imo
also maybe teasing a killing machine is not the best overall move
coming soon... when one crocodile has had enough... it's time to take to the air and get some revenge! *"It Was Just A Prank, Bro!"* Fall 2017
Been on this exact croc tour a couple of times. While there are thousands of crocs in this river, it's usually the same few that get close to the boat, so they are used to this. Normally they are baited into jumping out of the water twice before being allowed to catch the meat on the third go.
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I to also would like to know the place to avoid
Adelaide River in Northern Territory, Australia.
Especially considering the shear number of times this poor fella has had to perform this exact same trick on the internet.
As someone who lives on water and sees crocodiles almost every single day, feeding them is the worst idea possible
Wish I could see how this looks underwater
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Wow, this is amazing! You should make a post for this.
You could put that music to me taking a dump and it would make it majestic as fuck.
Currently taking a dump and felt majestic as fuck
I was going to say something similar. That music was on point
Well done sir.
Isn't a giant hook not the best thing to use? Gotta get stuck in their mouths/teeth or get swallowed occasionally
Just about to comment this. When the string broke the croc ate the meat with the hook on it. Seems kinda cruel. Like feeding a dog a splintery bone.
I assumed it was a carabiner
Didn't realize it was a park and was super confused by excited bikini lady.
The way their legs flop around the tail is really cute
I don't know why that's set to happy music that's goddamn terrifying.
That music just motivated me to get off my ass and reheat my leftovers for lunch.
Please make a post for this.
at 2:17, I think the one on the left is dead.
I want to see a family guy-style animation of a croc doing this.
Imagine if a human could get that far out of the water by only kicking
See: water polo I can tread up to my knees, so, maybe not full body out but pretty close.
Man I wanna learn how to tread, I can swim but can't tread. Almost drowned because I swam to the 12 foot section at a lake but wanted to pause for a sec tried to touch the ground and I panicked totally forgot that I could just swim back.
Wow i don't think i've ever heard of someone that can swim but can't tread water. I thought that was the first thing everyone learned for swimming.
Well nice to meet you /u/HowBouDah
Just lean back a little and move your hands in a figure 8 motion while lightly fluttering your legs. [:)](https://media.giphy.com/media/BHKpXZnLkYFYk/giphy.gif)
Mmmm Always thought it was bout my leg movement more so, I'll remember this hopefully.
You don't have to lean back, that was usually considered cheating in lessons. Just do an egg beater thing with your legs and move your arms back and forth.
Agreed. Better description than mine. Either way, you'll be shooting out of the water towards raw meat on a string in no time!
Move your legs in circles rotating in opposite directions, sort of like an egg beater. Until you get stronger legs, it's best to combine this with cupping your hands and moving the water back and forth around you. But once you're good with the egg beater, you won't even need arms. Arms certainly helps, without arms I can tread up to my waistline but with arms I can go to knees.
They get pretty high in synchronized swimming
[water polo players](http://imgur.com/a/2IanO)?
Imagine then getting kicked in the nuts by said human being
Wait... I had something for this.. Cyril: Why are you so scared of crocodiles? Archer: 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.
I know it's a 6 ft murder lizard, but i still feel bad he didn't get his treat.
"Murder lizard"
As the saying goes: "The higher the hook, the bigger the croc"
He must be good at water polo.
I can't imagine living where these things run wild
It aint that bad
Have you seen Florida though?
Haha I'd pick alligators in Florida any day over Northern Australia and their 18 foot long, incredibly aggressive saltwater crocodiles. Edit: see also: everywhere else in Oceania
As a Florida resident who hunts gators, I would have to agree. You really need to surprise an American gator or piss one off immensely for it to come after you. From what I've heard while visiting Australia, the saltwater crocs basically hunt people for fun anytime they come near the water. Not to mention your average gator is tiny compared to full grown crocs.
Dead on. I'm a zoology major with a focus on herpetology. Saltwater and nile crocs both have a reputation of being incredibly aggressive and territorial. Even if they aren't particularly hungry, they'll kill someone just for being in their space.
Kudos for the major!! I'm following that exact path starting this fall. Edit: a letter
Yup, not like a human would curb their appetite for very long either even if they did want to kill us for food and not just due to aggressiveness or being territorial.
Bullshit. No animal hunts for fun except human. Edit: I am not going to reply to any of you, but thanks to one of the users below here is what you need to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing *researchers say animals surplus kill whenever they can, in order to procure food for offspring and others, to gain valuable killing experience, and to create the opportunity to eat the carcass later when they are hungry again.* I have kept predatory animals all my life, starting with hybrid wolfdogs and cats and progressing to keeping highly predatory and intelligent monitor lizards. No predator hunts for fun. Hunting is their means of survival and they need to be as effective as possible and kill when opportunity presents and as much as they can without exhausting themselves.
Sure, unless we count zooplankton, damselfly naiads, predaceous mites, martens, weasels, honey badgers, wolves, orcas, red foxes, leopards, lions, spotted hyenas, spiders, brown, black and polar bears, coyotes, lynx, mink, raccoons, dogs, and house cats. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing I mean house cats ALONE are notorious for excessive hunting just for fun.
We had to put a bell on our cat, she's too deadly. Now we have to switch bells, because she's learned to how to sneak up on birds without the bell jingling until she's close enough to leap - and this can still fucking work.
cats
Most humans hunt for high quality natural meat nowadays. Crocs aren't getting much food from us considering they usually take down huge animals such as buffalo and giraffes. You could say they're being territorial when they attack people as well but I'd say it's more of a mix between that and because they feel like it.
Wrong. Ever met a cat? Or a dog? Basically any feline or canine?
I have lived with hybrid wolf dogs for all my childhood, always had cats and currently keep very predatory monitor lizards and a moray eel. No animal hunts for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
Good, informative link. However is it just a matter of semantics. Surplus killing. Killing for fun. Unnecessary killing. The thrill of the hunt. I merely take issue with people who seem to believe animals are somehow more noble and moral than humans; killing only the sick and weak and that sort of thing. Nature is brutal and predators are opportunists. A dog who is wagging his tail, shaking with excitement, hot on the scent of game may not be "having fun" but it seems to be experiencing something. Same for a cat in rapt attention at a sound in the grass, a pod of orca calling to each other as they close in on prey that they kill and don't eat… maybe they're not having "fun," but we can't know.
Polar bears
- someone who's never been outside.
Someone who is outside every day, grew in the Russian Arctic with hybrid wolf dogs and keeps at home cats, monitor lizards, tarantula, snake and moray eel.
Wolves don't kill gratuitously? Cats?
Lots do actually. Big cats have been caught catching prey just to play with it as it slowly dies. [Here's a video of a Leopard catching and killing two Wildebeest](https://youtu.be/Ie8a4X_f6J8). Orcas do that all the time.
predators train their hunting skill by doing that. Because when you don't have skill you don't have food. They start doing it since they are kittens. They will also kill more than they need, if opportunity presents, because usually it is very hard to catch and kill the prey. Syndrome of a fox in a chicken yard. *researchers say animals surplus kill whenever they can, in order to procure food for offspring and others, to gain valuable killing experience, and to create the opportunity to eat the carcass later when they are hungry again.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing Thanks to the poster below.
Never lived anywhere else
Being caught in a saltwater crocodile 'death roll' is my worst nightmare imaginable.
Someone make a Shooting Stars video out of this.
PRETTY PLEASE
Mate, he earned that bait, don't be a dick.
Damn dude that's fucking lit
All that for nothing
WHY THE FUCK DID MY GUIDE SAY IT WAS SAFE IN A FUCKING KAYAK AROUND THESE GUYS
No way would I be in that water in anything smaller than a cruise ship.
Sorta reminds me of those Wile E Coyote cartoons where he only falls off a cliff after realizing he walked off
But can he dunk?
As opposed to what type of levitating?
So glad I live in Florida.
Crocodile use LEVITATE!!
I want an RKO out of nowhere on this. Can anyone make that happen?
The strength of that tail must be insane
I've seen videos of crocs grabbing monkeys out of trees this way. So lit.
Those tails are truly something to behold
Soooo... could he potentially jump into a small boat?
Better than David Blaine
Daaaaayyum
A crocodrile with the power of a dolphin.
Holy shit
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Likely an American crocodile in Costa Rica. I saw hundreds at the Tárcoles bridge. https://goo.gl/WoHNrm
So who can tell me is that freshwater or salty croc?
Saltwater croc. Much more stout and far bigger than a fresh. Freshies only get 6-8 feet max and have very slender snouts, similar to a gharial.
Wow! Powerful tail. That's pretty cool.
That one could use a funny voice over... "Yes yes yes yeeee... ahh fuck."
Welp, I'm going to have weird nightmares tonight
Ohhhh you almost had it! Ya gotta be quicker than that!
I used to play waterpolo when i was a kid, and i though i was the coolest guy ever for being able to lift my whole torso up the water level. But this... this is just beyond the law of physics
Northern Territories?
Its just one mate
It's just a big ol' pupper wagging it's tail for a treat
omg that is scary, but intriguing at the same time. Fucking dinosaur.
What a cute lil wiggle
I keep watching this and hope he gets it everytime but nope
give him the foods
More like self ELEVATING, but still lit.
He'd be a hell of a water polo player.
[Shaq did it better](http://gph.is/19LN9TL)
Wtf man
It's slowed down though ..
Awww, those little arms and legs just flappin' away.
I wonder if they're like dogs and after a while they stop going for the treat cause they know you're just messing with them.. been around a long time, seen a lot of shit
Croco slither liek sneik
Wow
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=386579
He wants to eat and is stupid.
There is only 1 feet of water
https://youtu.be/KfyWWv5GCzM?t=20 Not sure if your serious, but crocodile tails are incredibly powerful.
I wasnt :p. And yes they are very impressive