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At the risk of sounding stupid: I don't understand how a crocodile or alligator can be dangerous.
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Phenomenal fucking troll, or absolute rip roaring fucking high, or this woman is educated mainly by tiktok and our species is fucking doomed
Thread's worth it for this response though, hahahahahahahaha
Thread's worth it for this response though, hahahahahahahaha
OP did you know in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland
Oh sure, but that's Australia. Living in Australia is like playing DnD with a party of first-timers and the world's biggest dick as the DM. You can't even live in Australia, you can just try not to die in Australia. It's the planet's test server.
So obviously it's full of crocs.
Look at this cute little fella
I feel like if this came up to you, you'd be like "yeah whatever buddy, just run along home". Just manage to stay away from its bullets, get on top of it and kick it into an open mineshaft. Just grab it and throw it on top of a flat-roofed pub. Just melt it in a forge before it can turn around. Not sure why anyone finds them scary, but maybe I'm missing something?
I feel like if this came up to you, you'd be like "yeah whatever buddy, just run along home". Just manage to stay away from its bullets, get on top of it and kick it into an open mineshaft. Just grab it and throw it on top of a flat-roofed pub. Just melt it in a forge before it can turn around. Not sure why anyone finds them scary, but maybe I'm missing something?
Saltwater crocodiles are big and fast and territorial and will actively hunt humans down. They aren't like sharks where even great whites generally avoid humans and will often bite out of confusion. Saltwater crocodiles want to eat you. They will wait patiently, sometimes for hours. If you go swimming with crocodiles you aren't coming out.
Having seen leopards casually climb an entire tall tree in the span of a couple of seconds while carrying the entire corpse of an antelope with its jaw, definitely not gonna fuck with big cats. And leopards and jaguars, as strong as they are proportional to their size, are still much smaller and less muscular than lions and tigers, but can do that. So I'm not gonna write off the cheetah because it looks skinny, it's got teeth and claws I don't and a mild jog to them should outpace my sad run.We done polled. People here think they can chuck norris their way through a cheetah.
Would you rather fight a cheetah, a wolf, or a chimpanzee?
Fight's in a steel cage and lasts for two minutes. You can either try to just protect yourself(ya neck!) or try to fight back. No weapons. All three of the animals weighs in at 60kg/132lbs. Pick your opponent!www.resetera.com
What's the biggest animal that you could beat in a fight?
Predators only. No tools. Edit: A prime specimen. Not a animal of that kind, ANY animal of that kind. I could beat a cheetah. They weigh less than me and are skinny as fuck. Even if it was biting me i would break all their rips with punches. Also you cant convince me otherwise.
Only if you're very unfit (which given we're posting on era, probably) but generally speaking crocodiles and other reptiles don't have a lot of stamina on land while humans where built for endurance running. That's the one physical advantage we do have.
If you're swimming that's another story, though.
OP sounds like my cousin's friend. She wanted to go to one of our country's nature reserves and at that time, crocodiles had been sighted, resting along manmade walking paths. They usually don't go onto these paths and stay in the jungle, water or mangrove so it was out of the ordinary. If one encounters them on the paths the only way is to quickly turn back and walk or run the other way, since you can't exactly escape into the jungle or mangrove swamps that are on either sides. It took a few friends to convince her that she should wait till the parks give an all clear before going. She was quite convinced that they were not potentially dangerous and that she could just walk pass them if she sees one.
At the risk of sounding stupid, I don't understand how we don't just let there be a thousand blossoms bloom.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i739SyCu9I
They can "gallop" to reach higher speeds. How fast depends on their size and limb length.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfwLpwEyEg
This. Be afraid of the thing that stopped evolving before humanity walked.
True story, a kid in my little brother's elementary school was eaten entirely by an alligator. It was like a 9 year old in 4th grade too, like an 80 lb kid or something
Didn't read through the entire thread, but it bears mentioning that despite being such outstanding killing machines, alligators and crocodiles have barely killed any people relatively speaking.
This is the entire list of alligator-caused fatalities in the US:
en.wikipedia.org
This is the entire list of alligator-caused fatalities in the US:
List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States - Wikipedia
They are fast af lol, they can move really quick from zero to trouble when they're close to the edge of the waters they inhabit, you'll hardly see them coming. The fact that they usually stay motionless while on ground doesn't mean shit.
Didn't read through the entire thread, but it bears mentioning that despite being such outstanding killing machines, alligators and crocodiles have barely killed any people relatively speaking.
This is the entire list of alligator-caused fatalities in the US:
List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States - Wikipedia
Alligators, no.
Crocodiles kill a fuckton of people. Especially in Africa where deaths often go unreported.
As a Floridian, this thread has been something else to say the last.
People who haven't been around them don't understand just how fast those things are even on land, plus how massive they can get in size and weight.
There's a reason why when one decides to venture out into the road and sit there, specialists have to come out to handle them and move them back to their natural habitat.
People who haven't been around them don't understand just how fast those things are even on land, plus how massive they can get in size and weight.
There's a reason why when one decides to venture out into the road and sit there, specialists have to come out to handle them and move them back to their natural habitat.
Most people aren't exactly going out of their way to enter places where alligators usually live. They're ambush predators that hunt in the water, so most people who live in areas they're around just aren't going to randomly jump in lakes. They're unlikely to attack on land unprovoked because they don't really like to hunt on land and aren't really built for it even if they're capable, so if you aren't getting in their face or approaching a nest they aren't going to want to bother more often than not. And if they are attacking provoked, they're probably not aiming to kill, just defend themselves.Didn't read through the entire thread, but it bears mentioning that despite being such outstanding killing machines, alligators and crocodiles have barely killed any people relatively speaking.
This is the entire list of alligator-caused fatalities in the US:
List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States - Wikipedia
did you know that adult alligators have a bite force of 2000 psi? that's more than three times that of a lion!
It's been six pages and I still genuinely can't tell if OP is trolling with this or being completely genuine.
If you assume an animal isn't that dangerous just because some videos online showed singular examples of some individual of that species not ripping the person interacting with it to shreds, there's a good chance you didn't get all the info about said animal. And thats not even getting into the methods that people can use to cheat animal videos like that (dropping a gator's body temp, for instance) to make them appear like less of a threat than they really are.
The world really needs Steve Irwin back...
If you assume an animal isn't that dangerous just because some videos online showed singular examples of some individual of that species not ripping the person interacting with it to shreds, there's a good chance you didn't get all the info about said animal. And thats not even getting into the methods that people can use to cheat animal videos like that (dropping a gator's body temp, for instance) to make them appear like less of a threat than they really are.
The world really needs Steve Irwin back...
They're ambush predators. Easy enough to avoid if you know about them ahead of time. If not...
Do you have experience as a plumber, by chance?
Do you have experience as a plumber, by chance?
That's quite a few? Seven in the last two springs/summers. Sharks have only killed three in the US in the last couple of years. Bears six. Snakes four. Mountain lions one. Historically, Alligators don't kill as much as some other animals in the US, but there's probably a per capita component to consider since they're fairly confined to a single region.Didn't read through the entire thread, but it bears mentioning that despite being such outstanding killing machines, alligators and crocodiles have barely killed any people relatively speaking.
This is the entire list of alligator-caused fatalities in the US:
List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States - Wikipedia
Unless you mean relative to gun deaths or car accidents or something.
That's it. I'm convinced this is a troll. Ahhh you're the gator and serious posters are the bait. Good work lol.
most insane logic people use, it doenst matter how something looks, mike tyson has a goofy as voice doesnt change he will reck your ass
hippos reck lions* like nothing and literally throw corcs around
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this isnt surprising people are really dumb in areas where they have no knowledge in, the smart ones defer to experts in the field
* most fraudulent title ever, kings of the jungle and they get bullied by nearly every large herbivore and they avoid anything that is too difficult , girrafes kill them in one kick, elephants bully them, hippos laugh at them hell even hyeanas scare them.
there is a reason lions hunt in packs, they are not serious.
tigers on the other hand actually deserve the title, they are solitary predators in an actual jungle sure they would get folded by hippos but nearly everything does
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Obviously when you think of the ideal circumstances, an alligator being out of its element, you being fully aware of it, and it having to close ground to get to you, yeah you've probably got a pretty great shot at getting the hell out of dodge and living to tell the tale. Problem is that these things dwell in their element and it'll ideally have you unaware of its presence until it's too late. Gators are generally going to be skulking about in murky waters where they're tough to see if you're not extremely vigilant, all it has to do is get one good latching bite onto prey and drag it down thrashing under the water and it's an easy meal, all it needs is to get the jump on you.
That said, these things also don't as a rule naturally predate on humans, so although they're absolutely one of the more likely species to eat you, it's hardly their specialty, if they were evolved specifically to eat humans they'd probably be even more threatening.
That said, these things also don't as a rule naturally predate on humans, so although they're absolutely one of the more likely species to eat you, it's hardly their specialty, if they were evolved specifically to eat humans they'd probably be even more threatening.
Tried to find a MUGEN video of someone fighting an alligator but apparently that doesn't exist outside of fat fetish scaly form? It feels weird to want to look for a MUGEN video and not find a character for that. Like I didn't now that there was a MUGEN character that's just a bear before I started posting this but if I look for "mugen bear" hey what do you know he's a regular bear throwing shouryukens at a sword-wielding zangief
Crocodiles have been eating mammals with fast reaction times for millions of years. They are not slow.
They evolved to surprise the prey so it is not a matter of avoiding the mouth, the mouth is coming towards you before you notice.
Crocodiles that are not hiding seem harmless precisely because crocodiles that not hiding are not hunting, crocodiles that are hunting are hidden.
They are the land mines of nature. Minefields are dangerous because you don't see the mines.
They evolved to surprise the prey so it is not a matter of avoiding the mouth, the mouth is coming towards you before you notice.
Crocodiles that are not hiding seem harmless precisely because crocodiles that not hiding are not hunting, crocodiles that are hunting are hidden.
They are the land mines of nature. Minefields are dangerous because you don't see the mines.
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One thing about reptile speed, they don't operate like most mammals. We have a pretty clearly defined gradual increase in speed, most species can't just 0-60 like it's nothing
Every reptile I've ever owned has 3 speeds. Wandering super slow, slightly faster when they're interested in something, and speed of light for food or flight. I can only assume that crocodiles would also speed of light me if I looked tasty.
Every reptile I've ever owned has 3 speeds. Wandering super slow, slightly faster when they're interested in something, and speed of light for food or flight. I can only assume that crocodiles would also speed of light me if I looked tasty.
Millions of people in the US and a death count less than the number of fingers on both hands is pretty low.
And of course you're in far greater danger being around fellow humans than alligators.
Right, and they're usually a lot bigger in the flesh than they appear in pictures and videos. I saw a captive crocodile when I visited Melbourne and I was flabbergasted at the size of it.
Crocodiles and Alligators have been living for millions upon millions of years, going back to the time when dinosaurs were roaming the earth. There's a good reason for that.
OP sounds like they need to go outside and remember what reality is like.
What would really happen is you would scream and cry and then pass out from pain or blood loss.
They're pretty adept at traversing terrain that humans aren't can't maneuver in very well at all. You can see the videos of them leaping from water. They can push practically the length of their body out of the water using their tail. When they chase you, they have you at a disadvantage because as an inexperienced prey you'll want to keep your eyes on them imstead of your surroundings and footing, dividing your attention and making it even harder to maneuver at the waters edge.