Meet Henry, the world's oldest crocodile | Killer Crocs with Steve Backshall 

He's thinking, "come here just a tad closer...."😅

Definitely😂

Brilliant post!

So true! The croc is older and slower, if the croc was in its prime they all would to stay put!!!

No mentioning of the place hosting you?

You don't think the century old crocodile who is clearly finding enough to eat is safe to be around?

@@SBRS47He's probably well fed. I just wouldn't chance it. We humans are just a little too fragile for comfort.

@@flipperdale51 haha I was being sarcastic I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing

...I agree, take care. @@SBRS47

Sitting comfortably at home, and i still don't feel perfectly safe.

He’s been killing and eating before any human alive today was BORN. That is insane.

I sank it in

He was around before electricity was affordable or possible in 93% of households in America & was still absent from 99% of the homes world-wide.

Born before the Titanic sank?

Sank like his teeth

humans can live up to 100 years or more but ok

Yeah he made sure with those ones!

@@cosmicreef5858 Don’t think that’s very common though, and plus for people alive during 1903 lot of things could’ve happened which led to them dying young, enlistment in WW1 in later years perhaps.

😂😂

I doubt that he ever ate anyone, since he was caught and put into captivity before he was large enough to take a human.

i want to see the Komodo dragon vs Henry

@@AC-LING666idk about an old henry, but if it was a prime henry he would’ve ate any komodo dragon for breakfast

@@AC-LING666 A croc like that is 3x or 4x heavier than a komodo

but what if the komodo dragon bit the croc with its venomous bite?

“I wanna eat you, but today is toothsome ground beef for lunch”.

And obviously no raw vegan diet xD

Can't say anything about cancer but there is no tooth decay because they constantly lose and regrow their teeth, so there is no time to develop any sort of decay. They just shed that tooth and grow a new one 😆

Crocodiles don't get that because they get new teeth all the time.

@@kakereiSlight correction: Tooth decay comes from certain strains of bacteria within many (but not all) people's mouths - although said bacteria does feed primarily on sugar, and then releases acidic byproducts that erode and eat through the protective enamel and eventually the tooth, causing that decay. That's why plaque build ups are alarming, since plaque is just a collection of bacteria concentrated in a single area, many of which are excreting that acidic tooth-destroying byproduct in that single spot en mass. Frequent brushing prevents the build ups and slows (but does not eliminate) decay, but over brushing can actually worsen the damage by removing the protective enamel and making one more vulnerable to the bacterial byproducts. Fun fact: It's actually pretty rare that anyone's actually born with the bacteria. Most people just receive the tooth decay-causing bacteria early from their parents or interactions with others, like sharing utensils, blowing on food to cool it, sharing water bottles, kissing, etc. That's also why if you see someone with a cavity-ridden mouth that you should be careful about kissing or sharing with them! They may have a particularly aggressive strain of decay-causing bacteria that you could absolutely catch by interacting with them. Fortunately, the gater doesn't seem to be frequenting tinder and swapping spit often, nor eating many sugars to feed them like you pointed out - lucky guy.

Genetically perfect for its environment. It would be rubbish at living in trees.

Catch you later alligator.

What

@@watchcitydog😂😂

I'll see you later Laboon 😭

​@@genkai7278 nakama

@red1.vs.red1 "SarcoCHOCus" HENRY IS MADE OF CHOCOLATE! :O

Not even half, Deinosuchus apparently weighted up to 5 tons

@@infernus6278it went up to 15 tons lol

I’m pretty sure 700 kilograms is not even a Ton.

Boy looks like he’s tired everyday

@@thebigstinker334 I think we'd all be tired every day at that age. We need to get him the croc equivalent of a mobility scooter. Might be a bit bad for his keepers though...

😂😂

Well, actually, that's just how crocodiles thermoregulate

Lol!😂😂😂😂

He never ate anyone he couldn't outswim.

And people tasted better 120 years ago

How can you tell he is 120 years old?

@@ragas2845did you watch the video or are you special ?

​@@Rob-uk604 he probably meant how do you know for sure that it's the same croc as the real Henry, or if the story or year isn't made up

Chad*

Between him and Gustav, crocs can produce some real legendary animals

real king cooper

@@samholdsworth420 No, Stud. Dude fathered over 7,000 children in his long life.

@@Supperdude9 😂

Hmm - I would love to hear Henry in real life - although do you mean "trainee", "trainer" or "trainee trainer"? I think maybe it’s a keeper, as Henry is not a circus performer

Before titanic was built and Sank 😳

He was already a giant maneater when caught, sl i'd say he was already atleast 20-50yrs when caught. So bought 150yrs, maybe more even. I mean, could've been a massive baby at that time too tho.

​@@Karl.Jayce-DE And before someone went there in a submarine with a gaming controller. And also sunk.

@@hallarious506 😂😂😂😂

must have been way older than 5. five year old eating humans? no way. too small

Crocodiles are like lobsters in the sense that they are practically immortal. In fact, the only reason they would die is if they were genetically flawed, such as a cancer mutation or a virus or disease. Bacteria, getting killed by people or another animal. If a crocodile was fully healthy, and hypothetically never came into contact with any threat(virus, bacteria, genetic mutations, other creatures, natural disasters, lack of proper nutrition), then it could theoretically live forever. Humans get frail and wrinkly and weak as they age. But there’s no such differences between a 7 year old crocodile and a 70 year old crocodile. The only reason an old crocodile dies is because something bad happened to it.

Because it's held in captivity... It has no other Crocs to fight lol .

I wouldn't say great shape. Henry looks a bt chomky to me. Could use a run or two.

Full set of teeth should be expected since Crocs never stop growing teeth. Henry having pretty much no injuries is definitely a lucky streak though. For comparison, Cassius, the largest crocodile in captivity, has his entire left foot and part of his tail missing.

There's a tortoise that's over 190 years old. Imagine if this croc grows another 70 years.

I think he's retired by now.

​@@ApanblodAs soon as they would stop feeding him regularly, he would happily go back to his old job.

Hey youngster what did you say come closer so I can hear you.......CRUNCH!!!

last time that thing had tasted human flesh was in 1903 bro

Technically all crocs are potential man eaters..

I was offended when he said "caught by en elephant hunter" because elephant hunting is just cruel...then he said 1903 and I thought "...ok different times...wait, this croc is how old?!"

@@jpl8878 he may be a decade (perhaps more) older than 121yr currently, since he was simply caught in 1903 (no mention of his age at the moment of capture)

​​@@jpl8878 Henry is at the very least 135 years old (crocodiles reach full size after approximately 15 years on average and Henry was large enough to nab humans in 1903).

I was guessing 50-60 . Amazing

Before cars, before TV, before telephone, before air planes, before relativity theories....absolutely unreal.

Henry is a living dinosaur, man. Incredible!

That’s Crazy 💯💯💯✅✅✅👍😀

@@IrishSetter01 First cars were from the late 1800s so not quite but still that's an old animal for certain.

@@ahrubik First car was 1885, He was caught in 1903, I was assuming he was fully grown when caught. It takes over 15 years for saltwater crock to fully grow. Wouldn't surprise me if he was born before the first car.

Erm actually it’s so they cool off. Sorry to be THAT guy 🤓☝️

@@CyoulaterB Crocs are like dogs... dogs stick out their tongue to cool their body, while crocs open their mouth

I LUV HOW DA INLENCER IS NO NOT AFRAID AND SO EXPERT I LUV INFULENCERS

​@@stressedhaish69420most animals do, im pretty sure sweating is a human exclusive

@@moonwhooper Horses sweat too which explains their endurance aswell, but humans have relitivly no hair on their body so that makes us the most efficient on endurance.

He is something from the Cretaceous

Crocidilians go back to the jurassic and share the same common ancestor with dinosaurs.

That's what she said.

I don't believe crocodilians are related to Crustaceans but I think ultimately, if you go back far enough, they may share a common ancestor. But that would likely be towards yhe beginning of advanced life and at that point, the line gets muddled.

Well yeah if you go back far enough everything has a common ancestor.@@JungSooLeee

Bad touch! Bad touch! xD

😂 Call Human Resources Henry has a complaint

Yup Henry's reaction was priceless

Don’t be grabbin my giblets Steve!

Steve Irwin was the best

RIP bozo

Should've stuck to what he knew best, his name was "the crocodile hunter" after all TF was he doing swimming with sting rays!!?? That was honestly my first thought when I heard the news smh....RIP

@@zuludkawso He wasn't just "the crocodile hunter", he was an avid conservationist, environmentalist, and educator. He worked with a great variety of wildlife, but he focused on reptiles. The thing with the stingray was a highly unlikely freak accident.

There's a chance he met Henry.

No it's not. He's just old, he doesn't give a flying f about that guy.

He has spend time with humans since 1903.

Over 100 years of people wearing down his personal space

Old fella is well fed, has no reason to move those rickety old bones

Henry has learned patience over his long life (no he hasn't he's just old and can't whip around to Steve like he did to any other mf in the 1900s) and he's learned to tolerate humans

That’s the reason he’s this old. The wild is no place for old men unfortunately. It’s not impossible he would live this long. But everything is against it in probability.

He'd be fine. There's probably many of them but the biggest ones rest underwater. You usually only see the little ones because they need to warm in the sun. A thing this big doesn't need anything and can just lurk in your nightmares while you kayak

bet you wouldn’t agree if one of your relatives were one of the men he ate.

@@lestagez Or ancestors, to be more specific. Henry has to be 130+ years old. He last ate a man in 1903, he would have been 10+ years old in 1903.

Just Henry, Sir Henry was the man who caught him.

I wonder if dinosaurs were the same. How long would a sauropod have to live to attain its maximum size?

That's a cool fact.

@@mikehillasI’m no paleontology expert but maybe until the earths gravity at the time couldn’t really sustain their bodies? Maybe?

@@KayKorTeeVee The 'gravity at the time'?

@@enjoythestruggleDude probably thinks the earth was smaller back them.😂

Me May a do a better job than biden

Probably has more brain cells that the current president.

He'd better make it snappy, every day counts now!

@@silentnight9655 A crocodile making it snappy. That's too funny! 🤣

@@jacklangley861 😁😁.

Straight up realm of death 😂

It's like they're from a whole different time period. The Crateceous period of time. Incredible

They did evolve over 200 millions of years, so yea.

Fr

Maybe so but I wouldn't do it!😅😅

​@@suzannechance5876it's either humans take care of things or you babysit their entire species an do everything for them to make sure it's done right. Croc is old enough to be wise 😜

Sounds like some of the "imports" in North America.

@@nonickname8292 Wtf

😂

RIP 🙏

Fr

Yes, he could be as old as 150+

Thanks. I was just watching this wondering how old he is if he was caught in 1903. I hear those words and I really can't comprehend he's been around that long.

What do you mean "regular basis"? did you hear something I didn't?

Same.question.​@@Eman-vp5wk

😂😂

Yeah, its like calling the Lochness Monster "Bob". It's just insulting haha. Whoever named him that probably has a lot of cats, and wouldn't dare go anywhere near a Croc

Did you watch the video? It explained he was named Henry after the man that caught him.​@@zumis1011

Would «Dave» be more fitting?

@zumis1011 I think you’ll find there isn’t much difference between crocodiles and cats. Both are equally willing to bite the hand that feeds them.

@@noonenowhere877 lol I think you'll find there's plenty of difference as well. Cats can't flatten a ham with one chomp

I wouldn’t be surprised if he was 30 or 40 when he started eating people. My personal estimate is close to 150 years old.

@@JackieOwl94 Based on what?

​@@simonmackenzie8571Exactly.People love to embellish.🤭 Some animals do stop growing after a certain age.Others slow drastically but don't live long enough to get much bigger than "average" size. I mean.Imagine a turtle as big as a VW Bug?🤭

@@simonmackenzie8571 classic trust me bro moment.

Even if he was born in 1903, he would be "more than 120 years old," so no, that is not why the narrator said that. I'm not disagreeing with your statement that he was large enough to be a maneater, I'm just saying that your second sentence isn't true because even if he was a baby in 1903, he would be over 120 years old.

But they don't fly do they so doubt it

Godzilla

er no...there is NOTHING about a croc that is remotely dragon like, come on now

Dragons are archetypal creatures. Every culture has them and they are always a mixture of features from he things that scared our direct and evolutionary ancestors such as large snakes, birds of prey, big cats and probably crocodilians as well.

Dragons existed

It's over he is actively failing his mewing streak

Must be a trump supporter

​@@menikmati789 what's wrong with you?

​@@nikos4677 npc

@@menikmati789 I thought the same tho

Are you talking about croc world in Scottburgs ,KZN . You are reminding me of my childhood when i went there in 2010-2012

​@@JouMaSePussyes, Henry still lives there with all his wives, me and my Family goes to CrocWorld atleast once a year.

​@@jasonferreira4761Wow. What a player.

​@@TheFirstCurse1 croc living big

​@@jasonferreira4761 woah so Henry's straight pimpin!

Bro is blatantly touching his no-no square.

Well there are giant tortoises that are around 200 years old so you never know...

I mean who knows how old he was when he was caught? He could be 5 or 6 as you have stated or may be even 10 or 12. To me he looked like 140 year old grandpa.

@@pratikroy227 yes indeed

Why was he eating man only??? And not a woman ... I'm curious now

We need more gender equality in crocodile related casualties. I also read that for each 100 men eaten by lions only 75 women get eaten. We still have work to do.

He was probably about 30 years old when caught in 1903, so born around 1870?

Human predators wouldn't be what kills him

​@@sopronunciareglignocchi7255nah they do some humans shot and hunt crocs and sell them it's illegal but still ppl do that

And humans are safe from _him_ just as importantly.

Yes, definitely Henry would have been killed by now. Sadly, a 60 year old croc was recently euthanised in Australia because he ate a doctor. The croc was known in the area, but the bank the doctor was standing on gave way, and the crocodile ate him in front of his wife and two children. A very awful and sad story, but I think killing the crocodile was too much. After all - his lunch just fell down in front of him

no, he says "if you like my feet, have a look at my teeth, you will be very impressed at what I eat"

This is an ambush please😂

Imagine what those eyes have seen in the last 130 years, I say 130 because chances are he was a mature Croc when they caught, (just guessing) him.

@@stephenwedderburn9307 yeah, i was just thinking that, they dont give an exact age, just what year he was caught! so hes definitely older than we think, incredible!!!

Sir Henry is too old to swing around and catch anyone that isn't a sloth even tortoises are faster than his reaction time now. it's fine though he is now 130 odd years old.

@@pratikroy227I’ve seen a 5m croc before being fed at a zoo in Broome, I can tell you they can move a lot quicker than you think. They can live this big and old in the wild and they catch their food..

they say there are 4 terms that even the greatest of the greatest predators fear australian man florida man wildlife cameraman and this guy

That "safe zone" is actually the most UNSAFE place to be most of the time as they can whip around in the blink of an eye and absolutely hate to have their back end touched, so I have no idea why they would say that! Young crocs and gators around 5-6 feet long are generally faster and more reactive than larger ones, but I still wouldn't trust that, especially with a Nile croc! It must be him in particular.

I hope your life includes moments even more beautiful than a 3 minute YT video about a crocodile

@@sosomething ugh...

They also never stop growing, the rate just slows.

Yes as an Australian I thought I knew everything about crocodiles but I didn't know they get to 120

Didn't

It is theorized that crocs can live easily to 150 years.

@@dragonkingred I thought it was alligators that got that old.

Yeah for sure closest thing still living to the dinosaurs no doubt

@@causetheplumstasteyum7848 birds are Dinosaurs.

Outlived the dinosaurs

@@causetheplumstasteyum7848cockroaches sharks and those silly little guys on the ocean floor, mollusks n such too

@@TheFinalGate_A croc looks it though , a mollusk does not.

"You know what daddy likes"

@@stevethomas760 Henry's the type of man who gets what Henry likes... One way or another.

​@@stevethomas760The growl and the "fangirl moment" kinda suggested "did I say stop?" 😅

he cant scratch himself there

Henry was feeling romantical.

he was captured 120 years ago, as a mature, man eater, so its safe to say he is older

@@gunkwretch3697Born sometime in the late 1800’s. A living historical relic.

They say he was caught in 1903, and that he was 3 years old... but we know that crocodiles take 15 years to fully grow up, he probably grew large enough to eat humans in 1900.. with that in mind, he's most likely closer to 125-130 years old than he is 120.

@@Frosty_tha_Snowman ....you're pretty much describing my mother-in-law

@@Frosty_tha_Snowman It was claimed that he ate quite a few children of a Botswana tribe.

Like sharks, crocodiles are polyphyodont - a fancy way of saying their teeth fall out and grow back throughout their lives. A crocodile's teeth are completely replaced every 20 months or so.

@@NotExpatJoe man i wish i could do that

@@jefferyandbob3137 Me too. lol

It's called an immune system.

Their blood is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents.

@@mikelarry2602It's an amazing immune system.

@@budgetcommander4849 I wonder how they would respond to Rabies ?

@@mikelarry2602 They are immune to rabies

from the look of the light behind the trees id guess it was early morning which means cold/cool temps and sluggish sleepy reptiles without having to tranq them.

@@misterturkturkle Yes, you're right. But still getting this close to a massive man eating croc deserves respect. And in one of the scenes, the croc is shown snapping at the camera man angrily.

@@Veronica.A. agreed just saying a theory on how they did it safely for all parties involved, mammal and reptile alike.

He ate people.

When people say dinosaurs are extinct, I usually point them to the fact that birds are dinosaurs.

​@@beniaminorocchiwhat about Crocobirds?

Sharks are literal dinosaurs too.

@@Owl90 dude wtf are you on lol

​@Owl90 no they aren't, and neither are crocodiles, educate yourself

lol for sure. The camera person is very likely standing at a safe distance and zoomed in!! Any slight shaking will become more exaggerated

I could be 20 feet in front of Henry holding a camera, heck 30 feet, and the shot would be unsteady. Cause I'd be on the balls of my feet ready to run just in case Henry was having a bad.

Yes he loves it.

@@joanmjames2495 so do i when she does it to me

fax

Tail scares me!

Old mate would have been sent to the moon 💀

Just be thankful you've got something to watch considering all our television has been taken away from us

​@@Okthen-jc2yiin Australia we've had them up to 23 ft I think

​@James-kv6kb yeh there's been a fair amount of the 6m reports in the past.

@@callanmurphy9807 I just checked 8 1/2 m was the biggest one caught in Australia but I think there's still 7 m ones getting around

@James-kv6kb yeh our salties are massive, Niles apparently have a stronger bite force, but ours get bigger. Either way I still wouldn't like to be taken by one.

@@James-kv6kbThose aren’t Nile crocs tho

Same 😅

Same

Same, oh my days

No mate, he’s been around before cars, electricity, and aircraft

@@carlmorris7723 No he's around for the same amount of time as aircraft the invention of electricity is older than him and the Car is older than him

You said it

If the Croc is from 1903, Godzilla wasnt even invented yet.

Croczilla is what came to my mind

Gojira.

He was named "Henry" way before WW1, and Godzilla was a bi-product of an incident from WW2.

RU-vid? Television wasn't even an idea yet. The first radio transmission had been made just a few years earlier.

😅 RU-vid??? Dude this guy was around long before television & radios (radio programming) was also non existent. Most people were still riding wooden frame bicycles which were able to ride on paved roads which were also mostly non existent back then. People had to rely horses & mules to get around. If u were rich u had a horse driven wagon with friggin wooden wheels. My family has a photo of my grandpop from 1911 where he's standing on what is now I-95 & it was a friggin unpaved dirt road back then & Oh yeah he's standing next to his horse & wooden carriage he built because his job was being an ICE MAN!!! He delivered blocks of ice for a living so people could put it in their ICE BOXES because refrigerators didn't even exist!! RU-vid?🤦

😂

Neither was I lol, RU-vid came out 2005. Internet wasn't an idea. Computers, phones, airplanes and almost everything we use today.

​@@flaccidego4291 Yeah we get it dude, it's not that serious.

​@@canopus_reborn bro got that reptile rizz

Look up Cassius in Australia, a lot bigger and weighs 600 kg more

Henry- 1 Grandma- 0

Sadly he passed away recently people are saying.

@@coops1992 that is untrue, henry is still alive, Crocworld has stated that those were just rumours.