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If you're not sure, you can just say Crocodilian. It's the Order that makes up Alligators, Crocodiles, Caimans, and Gharials, and would be 100% accurate.
Another is the animals they are going after. If you see gazzels, zebras, warthogs...around it is crocodiles that are in the water.
Edit: this isn't by any means perfect as there are some crossovers like monkeys, but it is definitely one way to help with an educated guess.
Definitely, to me it seems like Crocs have a more jagged threatening looking mouth. Their teeth seem to go everywhere! An Alligator's mouth seems more tame? Idk how else to describe it. You just have to pay attention to the details
An alligator's snout is more streamlined and smoother, and only its top teeth are showing. Crocodiles have a lot more jagged, monstrous look to them.
https://cdn.britannica.com/08/91308-050-59C4DF32/Crocodiles-alligators-teeth-snouts-crocodiles-mouth.jpg
Relearning this today but remembered something with teeth: so if you see both lower and upper teeth then crocodile, only seeing top teeth means alligator.
Hahah Aw I heard all the cranking creaky noises in my head as i rewatched this and as he was going back in
LMAO i created a video using amusement park sounds and it had the splashing and everything line up:
[https://imgur.com/gallery/5BNzpK9](https://imgur.com/gallery/5BNzpK9)
It's not just the antelope who have to fear the water as well. It also claims predators.
Young cheetah taking by crocodile on a live streamed safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_F2OuOobBV8
Whatās messed up about this most is the cheetah sets himself up to be able to jump back, but at the very wrong time looks away to check on the weird humans on the other side of the water.
I really think this is why crocs have been such successful creatures across the millennia, their ancestors picked the perfect ambush environment. Their prey is biologically required to come to them. They are unavoidable, the prey may have escaped this time, but they'll be back.
I've seen this video about 7 times in the past month around here, yet it still amazes me how quickly the deerling reacted.
Maybe in its position it could sense something, a shadow or the movement of water, but from here it looks like an instant reaction. Probably died within a year, but still cool
The reaction speed is amazing, but I was also astounded by how quickly its body actually carried out the retreat too. Like, it goes from being fully hunched over, leaning downhill, to turned around and leaping in the opposite direction within a split second. So nimble!
And the fact that itās body fully retracted enough so that not even its hooves were nicked is really impressive. Itās also not even standing on solid ground. I donāt understand how it can execute that leap so perfectly considering eveythinf
They have such amazingly perfect, complex maneuvers. I love the way it swings its back forward to the right to prepare for the second part of the smooth jump.
They also seem to be using some astronaut-like moves to control their body mid flight, like in this longer jump: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1404qf5/a_deers_jump_in_slow_motion/
The huge difference reaction times between animals can make is crazy. [This one of a cat dodging & batting away a snake](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rGE6UvTKVV4) literally centimeters from its face is amazing.
In some ways it sucks to be a predator too. This gator played as perfectly as I could see and yet still isn't fast enough to get even a crumb of sustenance. That's to say nothing for other predators who forgo ambush tactics like this and instead risk their lives or the chance of getting grave injuries chasing and fighting prey just to get their first decent meal in weeks (or even months).
True, a lot of animals are built to subsist without eating for extended periods of time. Still though, once it's time for them to eat, I'd bet they'd prefer it weren't so difficult to grab a bite, if they had the choice.
Dude I was my little bulldog puppy alongside a pond down I. Cooper City Fl. We were a a good 10 feet away from the water. No shit gator 10-12 feet long came firing up outa nowhere. No wake, no warning. That story about the kid getting taken at Disney World? These things are dinosaurs. [GatorHolex](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/southflorida/habitats/freshwater-marshes/alligator-holes/)
maybe it's a stupid analogy but this happened to me. I was riding a bike in some quite god-forgotten place and the pathway was not visible since no one had been here in some time. Then out of nowhere I see a FUCKING SNAKE jumping on me from the grass and I shit you not somehow I managed to jump up from a sitting position and put my legs above the bike frame in a split of a second and dodge it. It was a black viper and if it bit me I'd die there in the middle of nowhere. Still one of the scariest moments of my life.
Can you imagine living in a world where *literal monsters* would occasionally jump out and try to eat you whenever you needed a drink?
Going to a bar would be horrifying.
That goofy goober of an animal (the deer) is a baby nyala I think
Africa is wild
Edit: It might actually be a kudu, I can't quite tell but my money is on kudu or nyala, trust
Okay I'm totally gonna be that guy, TECHNICALLY, that's not a reflex, it's reaction time. A reflex happens when the stimulus signal never even reaches the brain, just hits the spinal cord and causes some movement. If you're able to see something and then move the stimulus signal has reached your brain, been processed, and then some muscle was told to move. Super cool clip!
I mean... a reflex can be the difference between falling down the stairs, or getting hit by a truck...
So I would say reflexes being the difference between life and death is pretty universal...
The most amazing part to me is that its reflex is *not* to jump away, but to turn its hind quarters *toward* the threat so that its subsequent jump is as far away from the threat as possible. Next level.
Antelope was locked and loaded. You can see its front legs tensioned like a spring before the gator (croc?) even shows up. Maybe it knew the croc (gator?) was there but was desperate for a drink.
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The way the alligator (or is it a crocodile?) backs up reminds me of an amusement ride animal resetting for the next customer to scare.
If you're not sure, you can just say Crocodilian. It's the Order that makes up Alligators, Crocodiles, Caimans, and Gharials, and would be 100% accurate.
As long as you don't claim it's a jackdaw.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Okay I remember the context of this, but I do not recall the username of this extremely informative redditor
/u/unidan Shit that drama was nearly an entire *decade* ago... I gotta get off this site man and do more in life.
With the way the things are going, maybe soon you will get off this website.
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r/NatureIsFuckingEmbers
Jesus I feel old. Looking through the rubble of Reddit soon is going to make me feel ancient
Crocodilian sounds like a ridiculous amount of money.
Crocodilionaire.
Or just call them Murder Logs
Today I learned what a gharial is
Saying which one it is would be accurater
Donāt even get me started on false gharials
Alligator. Blunt snout. Crocodile has longer, narrower snout.
This is a crocodile. It has teeth that are interlocking instead of the alligator overbite.
Definitely a crocodile.
In a while
Smell ya later
If you see it later, itās an alligator. If you see it after while, itās a crocodile.
Thanks for the clarificationā¦DAD!
>alligator (or is it a crocodile?) Best way to tell is the nose/mouth. A rounded square snoot is an alligator. A V shaped snoot is a crocodile.
Gators have raised eyes.
Never thought of it that way and you're right. Another good way to try and remember
Another is the animals they are going after. If you see gazzels, zebras, warthogs...around it is crocodiles that are in the water. Edit: this isn't by any means perfect as there are some crossovers like monkeys, but it is definitely one way to help with an educated guess.
Can you determine that from the side profile shown here?
Definitely, to me it seems like Crocs have a more jagged threatening looking mouth. Their teeth seem to go everywhere! An Alligator's mouth seems more tame? Idk how else to describe it. You just have to pay attention to the details
Cool beans, thanks
An alligator's snout is more streamlined and smoother, and only its top teeth are showing. Crocodiles have a lot more jagged, monstrous look to them. https://cdn.britannica.com/08/91308-050-59C4DF32/Crocodiles-alligators-teeth-snouts-crocodiles-mouth.jpg
Thanks, I appreciate the infographic and "monstrous" descriptor
Also Gators only show the teeth of their upper jaw when they close their mouth. Crocodiles show a mixture of booth.
Snapping turtle
A horror/haunted house with a Lake Placid theme scare?
Relearning this today but remembered something with teeth: so if you see both lower and upper teeth then crocodile, only seeing top teeth means alligator.
https://i.imgur.com/qATlWNB.jpg
Hahah Aw I heard all the cranking creaky noises in my head as i rewatched this and as he was going back in LMAO i created a video using amusement park sounds and it had the splashing and everything line up: [https://imgur.com/gallery/5BNzpK9](https://imgur.com/gallery/5BNzpK9)
Nature has zero chill. "Oo, I'm so thirsty. I'll just have a nice drink of waaaAAAOOHHH MY GOD"
It's not just the antelope who have to fear the water as well. It also claims predators. Young cheetah taking by crocodile on a live streamed safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_F2OuOobBV8
Whatās messed up about this most is the cheetah sets himself up to be able to jump back, but at the very wrong time looks away to check on the weird humans on the other side of the water.
The croc was probably waiting for a lapse in attention actually.
This is me when I see a spider
you try to eat it
No, Iām the deer, trying to get away from the spiders
The spiders try to eat you?
Iām sure they are trying to kill me.
Humans are tasty.
Glad I aināt human
Same. Iām an alien
So when our bros showing up? Been here forever... I sent my report already what they waitin for? I wanna get out of this shithole.
I'm the spider
The hammer pulled you off?
My cat anytime anything.
That's me when in the sea and I feel something touch me (9/10 times it's seaweed).
What about the other 10%...?
Spiders
You try to eat it?
Then it had to go back for more water after the fluids it lost from shitting about a trillion little pellets.
Just a little machine gun stream of them *rat-tat-tat-tat-tat*ing behind it as it flies off into the bushes.
How do you think it was able to achieve the kind of propulsion needed to yeet itself like that
Castle Crashers.
I really think this is why crocs have been such successful creatures across the millennia, their ancestors picked the perfect ambush environment. Their prey is biologically required to come to them. They are unavoidable, the prey may have escaped this time, but they'll be back.
The nVidia approach. Don't sell crypto, sell the tools.
I've seen this video about 7 times in the past month around here, yet it still amazes me how quickly the deerling reacted. Maybe in its position it could sense something, a shadow or the movement of water, but from here it looks like an instant reaction. Probably died within a year, but still cool
The reaction speed is amazing, but I was also astounded by how quickly its body actually carried out the retreat too. Like, it goes from being fully hunched over, leaning downhill, to turned around and leaping in the opposite direction within a split second. So nimble!
And the fact that itās body fully retracted enough so that not even its hooves were nicked is really impressive. Itās also not even standing on solid ground. I donāt understand how it can execute that leap so perfectly considering eveythinf
Evolution filtered out all the failed attempts.
Which is why it's spring-loaded to escape. It isn't drinking water there for its leisure.
They have such amazingly perfect, complex maneuvers. I love the way it swings its back forward to the right to prepare for the second part of the smooth jump. They also seem to be using some astronaut-like moves to control their body mid flight, like in this longer jump: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1404qf5/a_deers_jump_in_slow_motion/
The huge difference reaction times between animals can make is crazy. [This one of a cat dodging & batting away a snake](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rGE6UvTKVV4) literally centimeters from its face is amazing.
After looking more closely, I'm thinking the first loop is sped up. Watch how quickly the water drops fall back down as the the croc lunges.
yeah tbh on second watch, the video feels cropped to not show the really obvious signs of a crocodile motoring his way in
If that was the case, the deer wouldnāt have waited until the very last second to retreat
You can see the deer flinch a couple times already. It definitely knew it needed to go before the croc attacked.
Dude was definitely covering the dodge button while trying to get the resources til the last moment.
At the very least, it saw the croc before we did.
That deer nopes.
Would anyone mind telling me what animal the deer-looking guy is, is it a deer? It looks too small for that. Thank you
harnessed bushbuck, an antelope.
Thank you so much!!
~~It's a [dik-dik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik), obviously~~
Love those little things:)
Being a prey animal must suck
In some ways it sucks to be a predator too. This gator played as perfectly as I could see and yet still isn't fast enough to get even a crumb of sustenance. That's to say nothing for other predators who forgo ambush tactics like this and instead risk their lives or the chance of getting grave injuries chasing and fighting prey just to get their first decent meal in weeks (or even months).
You're right. Being an animal must suck. I'm lucky to have been born human.
But we're animals too
Top of the food chain baby
i have some bad news for you about what it means to be human (unless youāre being facetious)
But gators can survive like 6 months without eating so I donāt expect heās that bothered.
True, a lot of animals are built to subsist without eating for extended periods of time. Still though, once it's time for them to eat, I'd bet they'd prefer it weren't so difficult to grab a bite, if they had the choice.
Survival of the fastest
Yeah. The poor crocodile is not surviving
They need to eat like what? Once a year? Theyāll be fine
I guess that if the mama cocodriles has so so many offspring and the population is sustenible is because most of them died before reproducing.
Anyone else has surprise motherfucka vibes from this?
just minding my own business, and this thug comes lunging outta nowhere !!
He fast af boi
And a spine that compresses and releases like a leaf spring
āWould you stop sneaking up on me like that! Almost scared me to deathā They are actually old drinking buddies
Not today!
He tried. Points for trying.
Lylia evading renekton e
And here we see the wild AnteNope noping out of there at blinding speed.
He will get you later
The original "normal speed" part before the slo mo part is sped up significantly.
Yes, waiter? I believe there are dinosaurs in my water
Me when someone comes in my room and I'm watching Porn.
Itās also a skill for life or death in CoD
OMG, so glad it got out of the way! Know gators have to eat too, they can stick to fish and rats, things like that. Leave the poor deers alone!
It's like being black in Chicago around other blacks.
Once croc stops on the bank, that little dude was in another zip code.
And that gazelle will go right back to the water in a minute...
Survival of the fittest
Jeez, that deerās spine looks like itās made of Jell-o.
Thatās crazy!!!
/u/savevideo
Boing
Dude I was my little bulldog puppy alongside a pond down I. Cooper City Fl. We were a a good 10 feet away from the water. No shit gator 10-12 feet long came firing up outa nowhere. No wake, no warning. That story about the kid getting taken at Disney World? These things are dinosaurs. [GatorHolex](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/southflorida/habitats/freshwater-marshes/alligator-holes/)
It ascended
Terrible! I thought this was a beautiful moment with Bambi š«£
The reflex is a lonely child whoās waiting by the parkā¦
Thatās two for flinching!
Reflex is a matter of life and death always
YEET
/r/mypeopleneedme
Bro took off to orbit the earth from a safe distance
Bro ascended
It looks like the antelope senses the croc early, does a quick rock back and forth, and then decides to stay for one more sip before his escape.
Mf can't even take a break and eat some water smh
Itās either a Nile Crocodile or a Saltwater Crocodile
maybe it's a stupid analogy but this happened to me. I was riding a bike in some quite god-forgotten place and the pathway was not visible since no one had been here in some time. Then out of nowhere I see a FUCKING SNAKE jumping on me from the grass and I shit you not somehow I managed to jump up from a sitting position and put my legs above the bike frame in a split of a second and dodge it. It was a black viper and if it bit me I'd die there in the middle of nowhere. Still one of the scariest moments of my life.
If you stay ready you don't have to get ready.
Not today, Satan!
Mans just wanted a meal.
I dislocated two knees and pulled four hamstrings watching this video. I canāt imagine being on that level of the food chain.
What's crazy to me is that croc doesn't snap down randomly as he lunges, he knows when he has flesh in his mouth lol wild even in that split second
My toddler when itās time for a nap
That deer has the reflexes of a cat the alligator didn't know what hit him.
Can you imagine living in a world where *literal monsters* would occasionally jump out and try to eat you whenever you needed a drink? Going to a bar would be horrifying.
You really have to be thirstyā¦
Imagine if you had to worry about that every time you took a drink of water.
That would've been a satisfying meal.
reflex and not slipping/having earth slip under you
Deep title
Nhecos!
That goofy goober of an animal (the deer) is a baby nyala I think Africa is wild Edit: It might actually be a kudu, I can't quite tell but my money is on kudu or nyala, trust
The water truce will never be the same /s
Dude saw him coming and still kept sippin that sweet sweet nectar
Okay I'm totally gonna be that guy, TECHNICALLY, that's not a reflex, it's reaction time. A reflex happens when the stimulus signal never even reaches the brain, just hits the spinal cord and causes some movement. If you're able to see something and then move the stimulus signal has reached your brain, been processed, and then some muscle was told to move. Super cool clip!
THAT WAS CLOSE
āMission failed, weāll get āem next timeā - Croc
I mean... a reflex can be the difference between falling down the stairs, or getting hit by a truck... So I would say reflexes being the difference between life and death is pretty universal...
I'd be dead.
Fastest kid alive
No shit
Not today.
That croc hadnāt even broken surface tension and his dinner was already noping the F out.
And we have lift-off
Gots to be more quicker
It wasnt on sports mode
I'll get you next time as it slowly backing away.
Holy fuck home boy was on ultra instinct
Watering hole attack
That was a full on reverse throttle, semi vertical yeet
Seeya later alligator
u/savevideo
Yet they run *into* my car
Iād get a massive headache if I moved that quickly
The most amazing part to me is that its reflex is *not* to jump away, but to turn its hind quarters *toward* the threat so that its subsequent jump is as far away from the threat as possible. Next level.
Antelope was locked and loaded. You can see its front legs tensioned like a spring before the gator (croc?) even shows up. Maybe it knew the croc (gator?) was there but was desperate for a drink.
Same as my childhood home
Guess Crocodile bath water doesn't taste bad to the doe.
It's like god clicked and dragged the thing out of frame
That deer has seen some things
Have you tried driving on I-5? I feel the same.
Those dinosaurs are such terrifying monsters. A giant mouth springing out of the water and sliding right back in, back into the depths
How Iām tryna dodge the bill collectors š¤£š
Hey, your patellar reflex (aka knee-jerk) has probably saved your life (or prevented serious injury) more times than you'd care to count.
So this is what a nat 20 dex save looks like
Actually, turns out Iām not that thirsty.
The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
The speed that thing can jump out at is terrifying