Crocodilian thread

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Infinity Blade Global Moderator The fossil record tells us "What you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be." Posts: 7,835	Crocodilian thread Mar 18, 2022 6:25:25 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Infinity Blade on Mar 18, 2022 6:25:25 GMT 5 Giraffe tries to escape crocodile's grip, but it fails and eventually dies.
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Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,847	Crocodilian thread Apr 25, 2022 20:47:07 GMT 5 Infinity Blade likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Apr 25, 2022 20:47:07 GMT 5 Alligator eating an otter it apparently killed:
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Crocodilian thread May 11, 2022 4:52:49 GMT 5

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Post by Infinity Blade on May 11, 2022 4:52:49 GMT 5

Combats between males contesting dominance involve head-to-head physical contact, often sparring with the jaws or head ramming, and posturing with raised, inflated bodies (Fig. 6).

www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffrey-Lang/publication/255965122_Crocodilian_behavior_implications_for_management/links/00b49521110c8db6a2000000/Crocodilian-behavior-implications-for-management.pdf

This corroborates something I read before that male crocodiles engage in some kind of ramming behavior when fighting.

The solid bony rostrum of tylosaurines is unique among marine vertebrates, and hence it is hard to find close analogues among living forms for the kind of behavior described above. However, bottle-nosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) use their beaks in defence to kill or see-off lemon sharks (Triakis semifasciata) (Watson 1988), and crocodiles show some form of ramming behavior in male-male fights (Lingham-Soliar 1995). With our knowledge of mosasaurs it seems reasonable to associate the large rostrum in tylosaurine mosasaurs with the kind of offensive behavior described above.

theworldofanimals.proboards.com/post/25668

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Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,847	Crocodilian thread May 15, 2022 5:26:03 GMT 5 Infinity Blade likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on May 15, 2022 5:26:03 GMT 5 Crocodile attacks lioness, she was lucky she was very close to land: www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/uni94t/nile_crocodile_attacks_a_lioness_crossing_a_river/

theropod: Yes. Shit. I don’t think the free world had any real plan B or contingency for the worst case scenario that has apparently ended up happening. Things were bad enough as it is, and nobody really has any capacity left to deal with it getting even shittier. Nov 6, 2024 19:38:01 GMT 5

Infinity Blade: I imagine tyrannosaurs having finesse through their premaxillary teeth. We know they could delicately scrape meat off of bones with those if they wanted to. Aug 28, 2024 1:29:55 GMT 5

Supercommunist: Anyone find it kind of weird how some people portay gigantosaurus as a finese predator compared to a tyrannosaurus? Given that tyrannosaurus had the smaller gape and the duller teeth, wouldn't it require more precision? Aug 27, 2024 23:49:00 GMT 5