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Post crocs
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>>5107789
Why do they always smile like that?
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*drops a huge weight on your croc*
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CRAZY
INSANE BITING CROC
CALLING ALL MANIACS
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>>5107793
If you knew what they knew, you'd be smiling too
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>>5107805
flat fuck
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>all these fake crocs with no feathers
Open a book sometime.
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>>5107955
Not only did they kill him but they also completely bastardized his remains
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>>5107981
They did the same to Cassius. It’s like they can’t find anyone better than an amateur taxidermist to preserve the biggest crocodiles ever caught
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>>5108006
The long skinny neck is so uncanny. It’s like whoever did it never actually looked at a picture of a crocodile, so they just stretched the skin of the neck out as much as possible when it should be fat and short. Like that stuffed walrus that had all its wrinkles smoothed out making it way larger
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>>5107843
those damn crocs that know who killed jfk. those sneaky crocs that know who did 9/11. those conniving crocs who know that jeffery epstein didn't kill himself
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>>5108046
Zogodiles
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>>5108048
I'm pretty sure I'm wrong, but I feel like I could pet these without much trouble
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>>5108724
I reckon you could get away with it
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now here me out anons
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AUGH
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>>5108927
What is the world coming to
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>>5108946
That was a blessed thread.
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>>5109478
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>>5108945
Nice Croc
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>>5108927
She cute
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>>5108927
does the age of the croc really matter
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>>5109899
Shocked it took this long
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>>5107805
>falling piano soundbite
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>>5109439
The lack of teeth isn’t slowing him down
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>sucks you out of your skin
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sharks are still more OP
they've been evolving for way longer than crocodiles while going through very minimal changes
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>>5111239
>watchu say, greyboy?
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>>5111240
I didn't mention cetaceans
I was comparing sharks with crocodilians
retard
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>>5111254
The absolute state of fishfags
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>>5111239
shut up, meg
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>>5111239
Such a head start and they still haven't stepped on land. Pathetic.
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>>5111444
exactly,they don't need to!
they're perfectly fine and adapted to life in the water
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>>5111444
They all got extinct, but there were fully terrestrial crocs.
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>>5107789
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>>5108006
It’s crazy how much he shrank
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>>5107789
>if only you knew how bad things really are
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>>5111239
they've been literally not evolving, twat
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>>5108927
>7 year old
nonce
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>>5107805
Chat is this real?
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>>5115278
this. 7 is like 3 in croc years
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>>5107955
>>5108033
>>5108755
>>5111222
>>5112300
Checked
>>5109899
What IS the name of the croc on the Crocs?
Also checked
>>5111404
>Error 404: shark not found
>>5111444
They look so funny when they walkin
Checked as well
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>>5107805
god i wish that were me
being a croc must be pretty nice anons
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>>5116490
What the fuck is it with roasties having to make everything vaguely sexual, man? Who the fuck wears an outfit like that to give a gator a massage. Can they stop thinking with their coochies for like 2 seconds?
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>>5116490
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>>5116508
most mentally stable incel
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>>5116552
>Involuntary
My whole point is that I DON'T want to have sex, Redditor. Did you forget that you can't farm updoots on the Mongolian basket-weaving forum?
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>>5107789
Over a month ago they saw a croc on an African cam with a really nasty wound in his side as well as missing a big part of his tail.
Fucker seemed pretty resilient, although no new video of him was posted since these 4, so maybe he sadly kicked the bucket already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eHqrwObzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l4YZh2iI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZSW0tJscI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkT8Bn0YQEw
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>>5117133
>Sundarbans
The Bay of Bengal does have a lot of giant crocodiles
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So why the hell is there a gator farm in colorado.

It's a 4 corner state and in the rocky mountains

https://youtu.be/EOiIYiR6Gl0?si=YCSTpEY6SSCFOlpo

https://youtu.be/DmDRcW8iUTE?si=ICtaLEuiM6LPhsfr

I never would think a gator eating snow
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>>5121898
I think it gets pretty cold where Chinese alligators live
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>>5108048
>>5122568
>>5120587
Did you know Japan and Taiwan once had the prehistoric croc Toyotamaphimeia during the Ice Age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGHFb6tYv6k
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>>5122734
Up until 500 or so years ago, China had Hanyusuchus, a giant Gharial relative.
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On a flordia vacation rn. Went on the Silversprings glass boat ride.

Wish I had a better phone with better camera. T. Still rocking a galaxy s10
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>>5124600
Another pic
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>>5124602
Holy shit a duck
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Pic of a luecistic hatchling /very young croc

Luecistic have blue eyes, albinos have red eyes and both have white skin
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>>5124871
Adult luecistic was eepy
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>>5123834
Me too, every day. I want a spectacled or yacare caiman.
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crocfags have been real quiet ever since they got exposed
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Imagine flying crocs that converge evolved like pterosaurs if left alone?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekosuchus
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>>5128071
>exposed
>picture of peak performance
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>>5111239
Unironically, a great white vs. a saltie could go either way.
Crocodiles can take pretty crazy punishment and still be fine as long as they can swim and catch fish. However if the crocodile fucks up one of the sharks' fins, the shark may not be able to swim as well or at all and that's game over for the shark.
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>>5128804
The largest bull sharks aren’t even as big as the average saltwater croc
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>>5124555
For you
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>>5130068
I doubt it. There is a video of a Morelet’s crocodile taking one while it tries to cross a river though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ktpA-WcQA&feature=youtu.be
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>>5107789
Would it be too much to say a jaguar could take on a fully grown saltwater crocodile? I mean, jaguars hunt fully grown black caimans very often in their habitat, and fully grown black caimans reach some 5m in length, considering the largest saltwater crocodiles reach some 6m in length I don't suppose it would be too much for a jaguar to take on, right? I don't suppose an extra meter is gonna matter much when the jaguars already take on the 5m beasts without much issue
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>>5130262
>I mean, jaguars hunt fully grown black caimans very often in their habitat, and fully grown black caimans reach some 5m in length
Jaguars don’t hunt them “very often”. They rarely hunt smaller black caimans, let alone exceptionally large ones. The largest caiman ever recorded being preyed on by a jaguar was about 3.8 metres and likely weighed 200-300 kg. That’s impressive enough on its own
>I don't suppose an extra meter is gonna matter much when the jaguars already take on the 5m beasts without much issue
An extra metre in length is a massive difference in size. A 5 metre black caiman would weigh around 750 kg. A 6 metre saltwater croc can weigh up to 1300 kg. The crocodile’s head alone might weigh more than the largest jaguars
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>>5130289
Wasn't the 3.8m black caiman individual taken down by a teenage/subadult jaguar from the Amazon tho? I heard this same story from one of the guys over at Jaguarland.
If we take in consideration that the jaguar was a subadult and it was from the Amazon population of jaguars, which is smaller mind you, then wouldn't it be possible that one of the largest individuals from the Pantanal population of jaguars, which are absolute units in comparison, like the adult males from the Pantanal region can be as large as medium sized tigers, I believe one of those might be able to take down a fully grown saltwater crocodile in a succesful ambush
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>>5130350
>Wasn't the 3.8m black caiman individual taken down by a teenage/subadult
No. They do not specify the age of the jaguar in the paper
>I believe one of those might be able to take down a fully grown saltwater crocodile in a succesful ambush
The largest pantanal jaguars would be twice the size of a northern Amazon jaguar at best. A 6 metre saltwater croc would be 4-6 times the size of that caiman. They are way too large
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>>5130474
Which croc is the witch croc
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>>5115163
This account keeps popping up on my feed. The cute captions and happy music while she smiles for the camera is such a contrast to the depressing concrete pit the croc is stuck in
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>>5130262
Hard to say since these animals never met and will never meet, but as both are big apex predators, this kind of reminds me of the Tyrannosaurus Rex vs Giganotosaurus Carolinii debate, I think the answer is simply who gets the first bite wins because the other would be royally fucked.
>Jaguar walks too close to the water and Saltie pounces on it?
Yep, there you have a dead Jag.
>Jaguar pounces from atop and bites down on the back of the Saltie's skull?
Yep there you have a dead Saltie.
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these creatures are terrifying, I swam with one in a spring up in Northern Territory, Australia as a teen- I was told it was safe and believed my parents
so we and a bunch of other tourist / backpackers got into a spring/lake and swam up a stream, it was pretty fun, paddling around in shallow waters with a bunch of foreigners -
then honest to god, out of nowhere i felt a sudden surge of panic, i cannot explain it but it was an instant adrenaline shot,
i swam straight to the edge to get out, and as i tried to dig my foot into the side to help pull myself out - my foot went through where the edge should be, into a hollowed out area,
my bare foot landed on what felt like almost like a rock, but the rock moved down under my foot,
the adrenaline i thought i was already feeling spiked 100x and i honestly do not even remember getting out..
sometimes i think maybe i died there and this is the afterlife because.. i have no memory of the 5-10 minutes after my foot hit that thing..
I tried telling the adults but nobody believed me, they laughed it off, watched me panic and thought i was being silly.
anyways- i do have memory of the Newspaper laying atop the breakfast table the next morning-
later on in that same night- a massive salt water crocodile had been pulled from that same spring and swimming was now off limits.
i got sudden surges of adrenaline just writing this, i fear nothing on this earth as much as i fear the scourge of nature that is the crocodile
how many of our ancestors met their end crushed between the jaws of these monsters?
dont get me wrong, I wish these terrifyingly beautiful beasts no harm, but by god they terrify me.
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>>5134400
>how many of our ancestors met their end crushed between the jaws of these monsters?
Given that they still eat hundreds of people per year I’d say that number is very very high
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>>5134380
>I think the answer is simply who gets the first bite wins because the other would be royally fucked
It would take a lot more than one bite for a jaguar to dispatch a crocodile ten times its weight
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>>5134610
The thing is that the jaguar strategically goes for a bite on the back of the skull, essentially paralyzing the victim because it severs the spinal cord, and the jaguar has a bite force strong enough to crush a turtle's shell, so the croc's hide won't be enough to protect it, if a jaguar pounces from above and bites the back of the saltie's skull, being ten times the jaguar weight would be irrelevant for the saltie's survival since it would be quickly paralysed
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>>5134646
Do you consolewar fags ever actually read what you write? A jaguar couldn’t even get its mouth around the back of a 20 ft croc’s head to bite it in the first place. The largest croc skulls are well over 1.5 ft wide
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>>5134649
>consolewar
Who even mentioned consoles here?
The base of a saltwater crocodile skull, where it connects with the neck bones, could be biten if the jaguar lands on top of it and gets a good grip, keep in mind that jaguars can open their mouths very wide and it doesn't really need to bite the entire circumference of the saltie's neck, it just needs to bite, puncture the spine and paralyse it
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>>5134649
>>5134664
This video from Jaguarland perfectly demonstrates my point here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jaguarland/comments/1u14csi/ibaca_female_successfully_ambushes_and_dispatches/
Notice how the jaguar doesn't fully wrap its mouth around the cayman's neck, it doesn't need to, one detail to notice is that because the cayman rolled, it ended up with its throat bitten by the feline, but usually jaguars go for the base of the skull, right where it connects with the spine, the idea is to puncture it and paralyse the animal, notice how in the video, before the cayman rolled, the jaguar starts biting multiple times through the back of the cayman's head, it was already in the process of paralysing its prey
Sure you might tell me "but anon this is a yacare cayman, they're weaklings next to a saltie", but size doesn't matter if the instant the jag bites and punctures the spine, the crocodile is paralysed, there's no difference between a 7m crocodile and a 2m cayman if both are paralysed, other than one being a bigger meal
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>>5107805
The toadline ultimate goal
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>>5116640
Then seeing boobies shouldn't make you feel offended
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>>5116523
Faggot
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>>5134664
>>5135220
>This video from Jaguarland perfectly demonstrates my point here
The jaguar in that video literally wraps its mouth around the top of the caiman’s head. That is my entire point, a 7 metre crocodile is far too large for that. It is not physically possible for a jaguar to get the grip you are describing let alone sever the spinal cord
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>>5135220
You’re dreaming if you think a jaguar could paralyze a 7m croc
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>>5120587
>So why the hell is there a gator farm in colorado.
I mean if they can survive it.
Gator meat is a niche yet not very uncommon find at some restaurants these days as well as a source of leather. Its a pretty economic animal considering how fucking hardy they are and big they can get
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>>5135220
Did you even watch the video you sent? Did you even take note of how many times the cat had to keep biting the caiman and how it was struggling to control the damn creature? Now tell me how's the jaguar gonna fare when the crocodile is more than 10 times its weight and its head alone is almost the entire size of the jaguar's body? Not even two fully grown jaguars could pin down a fully grown staltwater crocodile dude, a jaguar wouldn't even dream of sinking its fangs on a crocodile this size before getting yoinked by the croc's tail or worse, involuntarily finding its way inside the croc's mouth.
>>5135236
>>5135234
I get a feeling that jaguar fanboys won't ever be able to understand that their idol is not some sort of marvel superhero creature
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The fat neck of a crocodile really is their charm point.
I want to reach out and squish it even if it'll be the last thing I ever do.
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>>5135309
I’m sure you could get away with it if you pick the right croc
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>>5135378
>those legs and paws
How fucked would one hypothetically be if they grabbed a croc and the croc swiped those around? are those claws sharp? are the legs strong?
Also, is it true that I can just wrap my hands around the mouth of any croc and it would be powerless to do anything because the muscles responsible for opening their mouths are pathetically weak?
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>>5135393
not really
and yes croc mouths have problems opening them because all the muscles are designed for closing it, but this isnt to say you can be careless just because you got a hold on their mouth
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>>5135393
>Also, is it true that I can just wrap my hands around the mouth of any croc and it would be powerless to do anything because the muscles responsible for opening their mouths are pathetically weak?
What this guy >>5135394 said, but don't forget that the crocodile has more ways of fucking you up besides its bite, let's say you got on top of and wrapped your hands around a fully grown saltwater crocodile's mouth, closing it...
1- Even before you do that you already risk getting bitch slapped by the croc's tail, and that thing's reach is deceptively long, it's powered up by VERY strong musculature and it is HEAVY. It would most likely knock you out cold or even potentially kill you depending on where it hits and the force of the impact
2- Ok, you managed to get on top of the crocodile and secure a grip on its mouth. Congratulations! Now you find yourself on top of a 1 ton animal that absolutely does not want you on top of it. Yes, you're strong enough to close it's jaws, but are you strong enough to pin the whole animal down? It can easily shrug you off and turn the tables on you
3- This connects with point number 2. You find yourself holding the animal's jaws, great, but then the crocodile starts flailing its head about? See >>5135236 this thing is huge and can weigh hundreds of kilograms and its flailing it about wildly. What if it hits you? Again, you might be either knocked out cold or killed then and there with the force of the impact
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>>5135501
4- By some miracle of nature you managed to avoid all previous points and survived grabbing and holding down a saltwater crocodile's mouth. What now? Do you just plan to spend the rest of your days on top of the animal? Do you plan on having friends bringing you water and food and mouthfeed you while you stay there? What happens when you decide enough's enough and loosen your grip and get up and away from the crocodile? Now you find yourself in a very precarious position right on top of a huge animal that's most likely absolutely furious with you and you have to let go of its mouth, its main weapon. Not only that but all the other ways it could kill you also apply here, how do you fare? Do you have a plan on how to get out of that spot? Or will you just pray to God that the creature is merciful towards you?
5- Your own overconfidence might kill you. Yes, the crocodile's mouth is not really stellar when it comes to opening it, but if you give it an opening, the animal WILL exploit it and then you're fucked.
These are some ways on how this could go absolutely wrong for you. That's not to say that it's impossible to pin down a croc and subdue it for a certain time, but it's very dangerous and should be left only to people with the proper expertise in doing so, an average Joe, even if it's a gigachad gym buff, would most likely end up as a meal to the crocodile
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>>5107955
I wonder if the Man eater of the Nile, that Gargantuan croc was ever sighted or captured recently, forgot his name, but iirc it's goofy for a massive killer. August? Boris? I cannot remember that - Gustave? I think it's Gustave? I do not know.
>>5134400
Considering just the Nile croc I mentioned has an unknown total of victims, fuck if I know, number depending on if you include pre sapian ancestors would be catastrophic I assume, Homo Sapians alone probably had too many meetings.
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>>5134664
>Who even mentioned consoles here?
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