CROCODILES – TEN FACTS.
Yes, they are what I say they are.
CROCODILES DIRTY DANGEROUS BEASTS.
They are:
CROCODILES ARE DIRTY
Dirty crocodiles? Do I mean some mud or leaves? Am I talking about the lack of clean water to wash their bodies.
No way Jose!
Crocodiles have foul breath. There is nothing that they can do to prevent the stink of their awful breath, even if the critters wanted to behave. In our case, we have to try and avoid even a whiff, as it is no good going to each and every crocodile as I had to do with Keiran back in the army. Yes, the girls got sick of his underarm stench, and they appointed me, God love’em, to ask him to PLEASE use some deodorant. I did, he was offended, and we were never friends. However, on the bright side, he used some deodorant, the stench was gone , or at least subdued, and the girls were happy. WITH ME.
Kathy, Diane, Maureen, I hope you read this and note the heavy sacrifice that I made to improve the quality of your day.
A few desperate gourmets will eat crocodile meat. I wonder if they would eat it if they saw the body being prepared. If they smelled it. If they smelt the rotten rank, malodorus stench of the meat before it was cooked?
But a stink is stink, just a stink, and you likely won’t get close enough to worry about a croc’s foetid breath. Then again , if you do, you might want to look at point two. This is the DANGEROUS section below. Later.
CROCODILES – WORSE THAN THE STINK.
What is more worriesome than a blast of rotten breath, or a whiff of the great un-washed’s smelly armpits is more reason to take fright.
The croc smells bad because of what he eats, how he eats, and what happens to the garbage.
Let’s begin with garbage. We take it out. someone takes it away, we don’t see it again. and if it smells a bit that is not our problem.
In the case of the croc, the garbage goes in, but no-one removes it. Well, not 100%, in any event.
The croc may eat living creatures. Watch yourself!
But he is also a great scavenger and he will eat dead things. All sorts of dead, slimy, maggoty things that are rotting, dirty, awful things. He will happily gorge on corpses that stink to high heaven, stinky bodies that fall apart to the touch. He will devour bodies with more white, shiny maggots than residual flesh.
Even with a decent toothbrush, some toothpaste, and a good scrub, this does not bode well for Cleanliness is next to Godliness. No, the thing is like throwing a bucket of water on a raging housefire. Forget it.
So far we discussed the filth going in, the ugly look of it, and the fact that the dirty bugger doesn’t even own a toothbrush.
CROCODILES AND BUCKETS OF BACTERIA.
But the issue is bacteria. Those mouths contain the entire world’s best deposits of bacteria.
We have to contend with the fact that crocodiles, unlike humans and other animals, are apparently immune to one particularly nasty bacteria – melioidosis. This bacteria is found in tropical soils and has caused several human deaths over the years.
Humans are particularly susceptible to the melioidosis bacteria. Human blood is not very active against that bacteria. The bacteria invades our white blood cells multiplies like crazy. It is extremely dangerous.
It has been established that the crocodile is a dirty bastard and a sneaky bastard too. He doesn’t need a toothbrush because his crocodile blood can work to inhibit the growth of the bacteria.
How many MASS WEAPONS OF DESTRUCTION does this Godzilla have in his arsenal?
To be frank, I say a lot about that in my novel, “The Sixth Season, Gudjewg.” It is essentially about one man and one crocodile. When you read it you’ll see that I knew all about “travellin’ crocs” many years ago.
LINK.https://leightonclark.com.au/crocodile-hunter/
We will talk about why Godzilla is so dangerous when we finish with his mouth.
Read this and think, “While the initial trauma can prove fatal, as crocodiles have more than 60 teeth and their jaws have tremendous crushing power, many victims survive the attack only to succumb to vicious infections which can result in death or amputations.“
LINK http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/research/2016/09/27/the-painful-tooth-sampling-crocodilian-mouth-bacteria/
We are not looking at a single enemy here.
CHECK THIS.
If the victim of a crocodile attack suffers a lesser injury, there is a substantial risk of wound infection. The bacteria cultured from crocodile bite wounds include Aeromonas hydrophila, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Clostridium species, Enterococcus species, Proteus species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Interestingly, in one study of crocodile intestinal bacteria no Salmonellas were found. The fungi commonly encountered in that series was Cladosporium sp.
CROCODILES AND SWEETEN THE BREATH.
I have said a fair bit and I won’t keep mouthing on. I will grit my teeth and by jingo I might just go and grab my toothbrush for a decent scrubbing session.
CROCODILES ARE DANGEROUS.
SNEAKY.
Yes, they are sneaky. They hide, they lie still, they wait under water, something that they are good at. They can stay underwater for a long time, which is in itself dangerous. They have very special eyes:
You may not be able to see it, but there is a good chance it will see you.
Crocodile eyes are protected with a third eyelid, a membrane that slides across when the reptile submerges, while the eyeballs themselves can be drawn into the eye sockets during an attack.
All the better to see you with Grandma!
Also, crocs have sensory pits along the upper and lower jaws that look almost like beard stubble. They detect slight changes in water pressure. This well-equipped killing machine might use this to locate you when you are in the water. You are, after all, their prey.
Crocodiles also have a keen sense of smell and their brains have large olfactory lobes that aid this sense all the more. I can SMELL you!
O.K. Fair enough, but I can smell you too, you big bastard, and I will keep away. Hope you bloody-well go hungry!
Making a racket in the water. Watch it! All crocodiles have rather keen hearing and they will hear you from a great distance.
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FAST. A croc comes quick like an express train. Half a second delay and you are a gonner.
This is gonna take a while. Maybe I will save the rest for later, but bear in mind this is a big beast, maybe close to a tonne, he’s powerful, he’s super-active when he wants to be, he has immensely strong jaws, and he is as cunning as a great dirty-fat rat living in a shithouse.
You will do well to give him respect.
CROCODILES ARE BEASTS.
Whew. I reckon I might have crossed that bridge, but I will emphasize that of all God’s creatures, this one is not the cuddly one. He has no manners. He isn’t the slightest bit human friendly. I had a mate who had a pet croc. Back in the day, t’was. Hell, every time he saw his pet croc the bastard would bite him. He yelled but the croc had no mind of that.
Have you heard the saying, “Never bite the hand that feeds you?”
Well, crocs will bite the hand, as they have no concept of a helping hand, just a handful of feed; to them it is just a hand to be bitten and devoured.
One definition of a beast is “an animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one.” That might fit!
Or, “the gift of reason differentiates humanity from the beasts.” I will strongly advise you not to ever try and reason with a 5 m croc. Don’t even think about it.
Say you are Walt Disney and think animals are kinda human? Well, crocs would be the inhuman type.
“an inhumanly cruel, violent, or depraved person. ”
Like “he is a filthy drunken beast” Yeah, that could fit, too. If crocs were human, they would still be filthy, they would be drunk on your blood, and they would be considered a dirty filthy beast for sure.
CROCODILES ARE DIRTY, DANGEROUS BEASTS.
Summing up.
I said it all.
Watch out for crocs as they will be watching out for you.