@@dla89240 The water is stagnant not free-flowing. The crocodiles and other animals defecate and urinate in the water. The crocodiles drag their kills into the water, so there will be blood and decaying meat in there. There will be mosquito larvae and other bugs in the water too. And during the dry season the waterhole steady shrinks and the concentration of all that nasty stuff increases.
The crocodilian form predates the dinosaur, as does the shark. Both species predated and then outlasted the dinosaurs and the extinction event that wiped them out.
And the claim is completely FALSE. Pseudosuchia (crocs and their relatives) used to be FAR MORE diverse than what we have now. There used to be dinosaur-mimicking crocs, mammal-like crocs (hell, some were converging on cats, dogs, and RATS of all things), whale-like and dolphine-like crocs, etc, etc. Even up to within the past few thousand years there were still full-on terrestrial crocs. And now all we're left with are the generic, comparatively boring semi-aquatic ambush predators most people are now familiar with, which has left us pretty biased in how we view this absolutely amazing clade. It's honestly rather sad.
@@jessejarmon2100 I think their claim was that the shape of the semiaquatic ambush predator is what hasn't changed in hundreds of millions of years. It was already perfect back then.
Humans have hard luck escaping from them as well. The worst thing is sometimes they plan their attacks if you decide to bathe at one place for a long time period in rivers or lakes
Crocodiles are so fascinating that our team members asked themselves, but what do their lives underwater look like? So our crew dived with crocodiles and got some amazing shots!
I was walking along a path and about to cross a bridge. A huge female crocodile spots me and climbs up the embankment to get closer to me. As it comes to a stop, a Gannet makes a landing next to it. The crocodile promptly opens it's jaws, swings about a foot to it's right, clamps down on the unfortunate Gannet, and with just 2 bites and some crunching noises later, the Gannet is dead and disappearing down the croc's mouth. That Gannet had no idea that crocodile was there, and it promptly took the Gannet by surprise. Crocodiles don't distinguish, if a bird gets close enough to be food, they will take it. I didn't have my mobile phone out at the time or that could have been the craziest crocodile hunting video on RU-vid! I kept going, not stopping to care what the crocodile was going to target for it's next meal! This all happened within four seconds at least it seemed like it. Gannet lands, snap crunch snap crunch, and it's gone.
Voiceover woman: The waterhole supports an array of species *who coexist alongside each other peacefully* Me: Err... are you aware this clip is of crocodiles tearing animals apart? 😂
that nature farming not dineing on every last one... eaters buy if its on the menue but they aint the farmers or the reproducer ..if it wasnt balanced society would munch themself out of the menue ...thats the point of reservations to keep it all stayable...
Read M. M. Kaye's memoirs. In one of them, she describes a hunt for a mugger in India during a Christmas hunting camp in either the teens or the twenties of the 20th century, about 100 years ago. The books are: "The Sun In the Morning," "Golden Afternoon," and "Enchanted Evening." They cover her life from 1908 - 1943.
Lmao did she just say this is a place for animals to coexist along each other peacefully?! What a load of crap! EVERY ANIMAL THERE CHILLIN WITH THEIR HEAD ON A SWIVEL AND EYES SCANNING! That doesn’t sound like peace to me!
They literally have 4 different tracks of audio playing during this short scene. That makes it feel so artificial. ITS A NATURE DOCUMENTARY! How about playing only the sound of what that specific scene sounds like idk, wouldn’t that be natural?
Quite possibly, although crocs love to sunbake. There's a place in Australia's Northern Territory called the Daly River and a drone was sent along its sand banks to do a bit of a croc count while they were all sunning themselves - so many it's scary! (You might find it here on YT.)
I saw a documentary about American alligators that showed a gator lurking near water birds building nests. The gator had some twigs balanced on his head, and the narrator said that it was trying to camouflage itself while attracting birds. Apparently, crocodilians are smarter than we originally thought.
