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To: C19fan

Uhhhh......Crocodiles do not “crunch bones” with their teeth. They can not chew. Crocodiles and alligators use their teeth to hold their prey, while they hold it underwater until the prey drowns.

Once the prey drowns, it is usually stashed under a log or root, and left for a few days until it begins to decompose. This makes it easier for the croc to tear it apart into pieces small enough to be swallowed.

I guess these reporter types are too busy studying Marx to ever watch any of the nature programs on TV.


6 posted on 07/05/2017 10:17:42 AM PDT by G-Bear ("Wish I could find a good book.....to live in...." Melanie Safka)
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To: G-Bear
Uhhhh......Crocodiles do not “crunch bones” with their teeth. They can not chew. Crocodiles and alligators use their teeth to hold their prey, while they hold it underwater until the prey drowns.

Once the prey drowns, it is usually stashed under a log or root, and left for a few days until it begins to decompose. This makes it easier for the croc to tear it apart into pieces small enough to be swallowed.

Whew, that's a relief. I was worried that they chewed.

7 posted on 07/05/2017 10:27:47 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: G-Bear

They also do a “death roll” spinning on the long axis of their bodies while holding limbs and body parts which are torn out of the victim’s body and swollowed whole if the entire animal can’t be swollowed whole.


12 posted on 09/15/2018 5:32:10 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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