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At the risk of sounding stupid: I don't understand how a crocodile or alligator can be dangerous.
- Thread starter Lant_War
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As a rule of thumb, I don't mess with wild animals. I really don't mess with wild animals close to my weight. And I really, really, really don't mess with animals, wild or otherwise, three or four times my weight.
I vividly remember when my dad and I learned that crocodiles/alligators could run: we were watching one of the Planet Earth documentaries and it had one on land just doing it's normal crawling thing. But then it stops and lifts itself up and just starts to run. We were both rather disturbed by this.
Just going by Wiki to give an idea of how large they can be:
Saltwater crocodile - Wikipedia
They don't nibble and release. They bite your leg? They hold on, death roll, and you either get your entire leg torn off and bleed to death almost immediately, or you drown, no option C.
My imagination of a fight with a rat would be:
It bites me and is way too fast for me to do anything about it. It runs away into some hole in the wall and I die from the infection I got from the bite.
It's not like the rat is going to square up and trade blows
I think I could 1v1 a shrimp.
Although it might depend on the kind of shrimp.
Showed this thread to my 11-year-old daughter.
She laughed at the question. Did a real life facepalm.
She laughed at the question. Did a real life facepalm.
Well, where are we fighting the rat? I'm 100% sure a rat wouldn't beat me, I don't think I could beat one either. I'd just scurry off somewhere as soon as it felt threatened, unless there was no way out.
*Laughs in Queenslander* Its the croc/gator you can't see that you need to worry about.
We just had a croc fatality during the week :(
We just had a croc fatality during the week :(
Both are extremely dangerous animals. However, I feel like Alligators are a bit more chill compared to Crocodiles in terms of temperament.
I feel like it being a fight implies the rat isn't running away. But fuck it, you're in an arena with no escape until one of you are dead. I would just step on the rat, it might take some attempts and chasing, but I'm winning.
Yea okay? What's the big deal? On a side note, why is everybody afraid of guns too? Just don't get hit by the bullets, duh.
How high were you when you wrote this?
A cursory google image search for alligator/crocodile wound pictures would shut this goofy shit down, lmao.
My rule of thumbs is "fuck nature". I don't fuck with nature cause I don't want nature to fuck me. I don't go ANYWHERE where nature can drop trout and go to town. No thank you.
Even then, nature has no borders. So sometimes wild animals will come to my area. Nope. I leave em be.
It's the only scenario where I can see able-bodied people saying they can't beat one. Maybe someone with some sort of phobia, I dunno.
OP is vastly underestimating how fast crocodilians can be
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0
Footage of the same alligator ripping a lamb's head off
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAY2SXpUCwU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0
Footage of the same alligator ripping a lamb's head off
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAY2SXpUCwU
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Logic applies to literally anything
Just manage to stay away from [dangerous physical features] and problem solved. I don't understand how [thing with dangerous physical features] can threaten humans.
One bite is enough to completely remove an arm or leg, and that's if you're lucky. Hopefully it'll take the leg as its meal and there are folks nearby who can help you with a tournquet. If it grabs you and you're going along for the ride, there's really nothin you can do. Gators will roll even on land. You'd get rolled under an animal that weighs as much as a car repeatedly until your body starts coming apart.
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Predators like bears and wolves were wiped out in the UK, and I understand the high ideal of letting nature and innocent wild animals thrive - but at the same time, I'm kinda glad we don't have bears and wolves to worry about. I wouldn't want alligators either.
You have to wonder if any of these people had the foresight to offer a leg first.
No, if it gets your leg, you're dead. If it gets your arm, you're dead. If it closes its jaws on any part of you, it has you. Their bite force is enormous, so you won't be getting free of the jaws. You'll either be dragged underwater to drown, or they'll death roll with whatever part of you it's got a hold of and tear you asunder, or both at once. I don't think you're going to be boxing with them with your arm torn off.
Now a "little" alligator, I guess, or a caiman, maybe. But a full size alligator, not looking good, and a grown crocodile, it's done. They crush bones with those jaws and swallow prey nearly whole, and their hide is thick and strong.
If you watch nature footage of crocodiles in African safari or wilderness, when they ambush animals at the edge of a river or lake, they're pretty much invisible underwater til they burst out for the grab. Now antelopes and the like can do some pretty crazy instinctual acrobatics to leap away from it, but all the croc needs is to catch any part of it, even around the ankle, and it's over, it'll be dragged into the water and that's the crocodile's turf. And every animal's gotta drink sometime.
Good rule of thumb is if an animal has no natural predators, definitely give them a wide berth at all times.
A well travelled friend of the family was talking about this with work once, and mentioned making sure to never take the same path near rivers/open water multiple days in a row, because they are smart as hell and will lie in wait for you.
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Are you talking about the dude looking for the 20 ft anaconda in the everglades?
He knows a lot about animals and how to keep relatively safe.
What this thread feels like is those videos of tourists going up to buffalo thinking they're harmless because they're herbivores, without realizing they're incredibly dangerous. But now you know! and knowing is half the battle
On land, they aren't dangerous unless they surprise you in a short distance. They're extremely fast for a couple seconds, after that they can't keep up.
If you don't already understand how they are dangerous in the water, there isn't much I can say to convince you.
If you don't already understand how they are dangerous in the water, there isn't much I can say to convince you.
Pretty sure there's not many animals on Earth that can match the bite force of a crocodile/alligator. They will crush every bone they latch onto and they will not let go.
Be thankful they're not inherently aggressive toward humans (at least not the American Alligator I'm more familiar with). If you leave them alone, they'll usually leave you alone.
Be thankful they're not inherently aggressive toward humans (at least not the American Alligator I'm more familiar with). If you leave them alone, they'll usually leave you alone.
This entire thread is amusing but this
This fucking ended me holy shit Hahahahaha
