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And any good-sized crocodilian can survive a long while without drinking freshwater by satisfying its needs via food and metabolic action. They've been found encrusted with barnacles, and spotted munching sea turtles at nesting beaches and pelicans offshore. The footage was captured from a charter boat on the popular Prince Regent River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Mangled carcasses – headless gators, sharks "nearly bitten in two" – washed ashore for miles up the coast, attracting hordes of vultures. Studies from places like Florida's Shark River Estuary and Sapelo Island off Georgia suggest certain coastal alligators make a tradeoff: they endure the physical hardships of brackish habitats – plus the workout of shuttling between them and the freshwater havens where they recharge – because these spots are such productive hunting grounds.

The historical range of this biggest living reptile is a vast ocean-dominated kingdom: from the seacoast of southern China (where it was wiped out long ago) and the Sundarbans mangal of India and Bangladesh, south to northern Australia, and from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in the east as far west as the Seychelles, where it was killed off by the early 1800s. In 2010, a "saltie" ( estimated at some 16 feet long) dispatched a good-sized bull shark in Kakadu National Park.

That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened and persecuted, complex and fascinating. Possibly they have been displaced by larger males in the river system they came from and are now looking for an alternative to inhabit and breed. Tiger sharks – which commonly patrol coastal waterways – could pose a threat to any croc, given their large size, robust serrated teeth (which can saw through a sea-turtle shell like nobody's business), and up-for-anything predatory habits. A number of crocodile species readily reside in brackish habitats, but two are by far most comfortable in marine settings: the American croc and the Indo-Pacific (aka "saltwater") croc. More resilient in marine settings – and maybe more adept at negotiating tidal currents and wave chop – such big gators might find rich pickings on sorties into seawater.

In fact, in some areas, estuarine or marine prey may compose most of the diet of coastal alligators, especially adult males. Crocodiles may also use marine habitat for nesting: American crocs in South Florida mostly frequent mangrove swamps, but some females enter Florida Bay off the Everglades National Park coast to lay eggs on remote keys. Full-grown bull sharks, though outsized by many compatriot crocs, are heavy-jawed bruisers of fish, and likely don't fall victim to the reptiles much (except maybe to genuine giants like Brutus). The shark pups of mangrove nurseries make easy meals for crocodiles, and hatchling and subadult crocs are appealing morsels for river-cruising sharks. Like their Indo-Pacific counterparts, American crocs sometimes meander well outside their established range.In recent years, a few crocs – likely drifters from Cuba, which has more American crocs than anywhere else – have reared their snaggletooth heads in the Cayman Islands, which probably once supported their own resident population. Earlier this year, we passed along a video from Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, where an Indo-Pacific crocodile hauled a sea turtle offshore, a jackal-like gaggle of scavenging sharks in tow. A crocodile killed at Ailinglaplap Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 2004 was some 1,200 miles from the nearest known population. Two recent pieces of footage from Australia suggest what's likely more typical interplay between full-grown crocs and sharks. Upon his arrival, the current through the Torres Strait (which separates the Cape York from New Guinea) was flowing west to east, so the croc lingered here for three days until it reversed.

In this article, we’ll give you 4 different ways you can shrink your Crocs to get the perfect fit in just a few minutes. They also prey on big animals like water buffaloes, wild boar, deer, goats, monkeys, and even sharks. But American alligators regularly inhabit brackish waters in estuaries, mangrove swamps and saltmarshes. Indo-Pacific crocodile distribution – including the range of "wanderer" crocs – based on a map by Adam Britton. The estuaries and lagoons of the tropics, after all, find the vulnerable young of both creatures overlapping.Recent deluges in the Altamaha River basin may have carried this gator out to sea: the observers noted marsh wrack and other debris near the reptile. One of these beasts, nearly 16 feet long, was caught in the Wenlock River on the western coast of the peninsula, flown 78 miles overland and released in Temple Bay on the other side. Predators generally don't mess with each other because the risk of a serious injury usually isn't worth it," notes Britton. If we look at the number of humans killed every year by the two creatures, a Saltwater Crocodile proves to be the deadlier predator.

Lemon sharks, on the other hand, appear to avoid the chemical traces of American crocodiles in the water. Boil your Crocs in water for 5 minutes to shrink them, or leave them out in the hot sun for 20 minutes. What if two of the deadliest aquatic predators ever—the Saltwater Crocodile and the Great White Shark —were up against each other in a historic battle?Floods and tidal surges – and perhaps the spirit of adventure – may pull gators from coastal rivers or inlets even farther from the mainland. Alligators and caimans are mainly freshwater crocodilians – their lingual glands don't effectively secrete salt. Gnarly freshwater predator with 250 million years of badass evolution under its belt meets gnarly saltwater predator with an even longer track record – who prevails? And in August, a saltie peaceably joined comparably sized lemon sharks circling a boat on a Kimberley river.