Comment on bitey

grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The closing force is significantly higher than its opening force IIRC. If yp 9u can close its mouth without getting bitten it’s screwed.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Didn’t like everyone watch Steve Irwin do this to massive crocs like all the time.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but time marches on and everything. Young people won’t know him. Someone said they didn’t know who a guy in a picture was the other week. It was Tony Bourdain and I felt old.

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      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A coworker the other day didn’t know there was an animated grinch movie before the Jim Carey one. ಠ╭╮ಠ

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      • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        who?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was Steve though - he probably knew the croc

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just remember these guys can grip an animal the size of a horse with their jaws, overpower it, drag it to the water and rip it apart.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Salt water Crocs are not tiny. Some alligators are on the smallish side comparatively, but there are big gators out there too.

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Crocodiles are also one of those rare animals that don’t “age” in the traditional sense. Once they reach adulthood, they continue to get larger and larger until they eventually starve or their organs collapse under their own body weight. They don’t lose muscle mass or bone density or any of the usual issues we attribute to getting older.

    Imagine having the build of a 25 year old at 100 and being 7+ft tall. That’s how crocodiles age.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I’ve never seen one in real life, so I feel like like I’m not grokking the sense of scale.

    Kind of like seeing a horse or moose for the first time (guess my hemisphere lol).

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s a rough size comparison

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I’m still not getting it. Maybe I’ll see one for real one day and then it’ll click

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