Armoured Predators (Crocodiles – Facts & scary Stats)

Australian Freshwater Crocodile

Australian Estuarine Crocodiles

*Crocodiles are reptiles

*Reptiles cannot heat up their bodies from the inside like birds or mammals; rather they heat up their bodies with the rays of the sun.

* Crocodiles have 66 teeth. Each can be replaced many times over during the crocodiles lifetime.

*Crocodiles bodies are covered with an armour of bony scales that protect them from other predator’s (mostly other Crocodiles)

*Crocodiles eyes, ears and nostrils are located at the top of their heads so that they can lurk beneath the water and creep up on their prey.

*On land Crocodiles are quite slow, but beware, they can travel in spurts of up to 20km an hour.

*Stones can be found in the stomachs of crocodiles to help them grind food. These stones also act like the ballast in a ship to help the crocodile maintain its position under water.

*Female Crocodiles make a nest on the ground of decaying vegetation or sand and lay up to 60 eggs at a time.

Most Crocodile attacks on humans are on swimmers at night; Don’t swim in a Crocodile habitat.

*The muscles to open the Crocodiles jaw are very weak, but they have great power in snapping shut- up to 3 tonnes per square inch.

We have both species of Australian Crocodiles here at the Wildlife Habitat; the Estuarine (or salty) Crocodile and the Freshwater (or freshy) Crocodile.

They are out and about every day often sunning themselves on the lawn.

Check out Babinda our 4 metre male salty, he has his mouth wide open, what do you think Babinda is doing ????