10 Facts About Crocodiles

10 Facts About Crocodiles

1. Believe not that the crocodile was actually able ngeluarin tears? Well, the tears will be generated if the eyes become dry after a crocodile linger there outside the water. The liquid that comes from the margin of lachrymal glands, and tears it also helps clean the eye.

2. Crocodiles can move quickly to catch prey. Crocodiles can reach speeds of 18 km per hour. It also depends on the type size of the crocodile.

3. Crocodiles can survive with one meal per year.

4. Crocodiles do not have lips. That's why the mouth of a crocodile is not tightly closed time. But when the alligator dive, he closed all the special cover in his throat.Its function, let the water does not enter into the lungs.

5. Crocodiles can not stick its tongue, not like our tongues are connected at the end. Aloe vera stick along the mouth.

6. Crocodiles swallow stones (Gastroliths). Function as a grinder and helps digestion.

7. Crocodiles have a normal eyelid, plus a transparent eyelid which is used as glasses for swimming under water.

8. A female crocodile can lay eggs till 80 eggs per year and can reproduce for 50 years.

9. Crocodile with 18 fingers. And has 5 separate fingers on each front paw, and four webbed fingers on each hind legs.

10. In the 1960s, saltwater crocodiles in Australia is estimated to nearly extinct. After protection laws enacted, the population immediately jumped to more than 100 thousand heads.

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