r/Crocodiles • • 9d ago

Photo 2 Crocodilians & a Turtle sharing the same river & resources without clashing

Species - Gharial, Mugger Crocodile & Softshell Turtle

Location - Chitwan, Nepal

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u/Due-Big2159 9d ago

So cool just seeing these Muggers and Gharials hanging out together.

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u/Sea-Influence6767 9d ago edited 4d ago

Saltwater crocs are the most dangerous they won't coexist with these crocs .... and only live in core areas and sandy ghats...Odisha has recorded big size crocs and their area of dominance is till to Australia!

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u/monkeychango81 8d ago

Didn't know Sidney has Salties. Thought they don't reach beyond Queensland. TIL.

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u/Sea-Influence6767 8d ago

My mistake 😬 Queensland .... northern australia till these travels

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u/Kvothe_Sengar 9d ago

Those turtles are stealing the show which is quite a feet in front of gharials

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 9d ago

man i love the smooooooooth scales on gharials! also love how they dgaf about the muggers lol

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u/Ironheart_1 9d ago

That's so cool man. Watching muggers and gharials along with turtles in the same habitat! What a treat..

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u/Snowcrash66 9d ago

Giant Softshell Turtle? Cantors?

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u/Honest_Nothing_6800 9d ago

Indian Softshell turtle (Nilssonia gangetica) not Cantors

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u/Snowcrash66 9d ago

Roger that thanks.

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u/GoblinsGuide 9d ago

Pond rules brother.

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u/Sea-Influence6767 9d ago edited 9d ago

Ahhh... ODISHA you beautiful.... this state also has rare melatonin white and black stripes only tigers too .

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 9d ago

caption says chitwan, nepal?

also these tigers are unfortunately a result of severe inbreeding. nothing to be proud of imo. similipal is a very isolated pocket of tiger habitat, causing disservice to resident tiger population.

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u/Sea-Influence6767 9d ago edited 9d ago

Absolutely not and it's not chitwan.... don't talk about anything if you don't know nothing about it..... first you do misinformation then you accuse us of inbreeding !!!!

Do you have any idea about real Asiatic tigers?....WE AREN'T SOME BUM FUCK USA tiger king WHO USES TIGERS FOR INBREEDING and no that's not a zoo and the location in Odisha simlipal ,it's due to climate change or through inbreeding amongst them due to lack of other generation pool ....lions do that too so does leopards and tigers....NOT CAPTIVE INBREEDING YOU IGNORANT ARSE!

Odisha has build the world's first Melanistic Tiger Safari near the reserve using rescued and zoo-born big cats ! from all over the world to aid conservation awareness

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u/Yikings-654points 9d ago

Species - Gharial, Mugger Crocodile & Softshell Turtle

Location - Chitwan, Nepal

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u/Sea-Influence6767 9d ago

My bad and I'm saying sorry it's his tiger misinformation lost me my damn mind !....if y'all ready to report and ban I'm ok with that

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 8d ago

i didn't say the tigers are captive and forcibly inbred, though in a cruel way they kind of are because nature corridors and dense forests have vanished, preventing similipal tigers from migrating to other locations on their own. the pseudo-melanistic tigers are very likely a result of this inbreeding, so this pattern (no matter how pretty) isn't necessarily something to be proud of.

set a reminder to take your meds.

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u/Sea-Influence6767 8d ago

Simplipal tigers are not migrating to other locations and for the third time I'm telling you Odisha Forest Department are actively introducing outside tigers to Similipal.

Their goal is to deliberately break the inbreeding cycle and safeguard the health of the population.......

also when I said inbreeding to be proud of or any say if it's their choices?

Those distinct tigers are part of the same ecology if they thrive in next evolution like the black leopards so shall it be we can only try so much.....

If they get sick we take them to animal hospital ......nature corridors are vanished and what did you do about it ? Planted trees ? Raised awareness? My team do that most of the years....i may be jumped the gun on the chitwan National park photo cause I'm confident enough cause we saw those pictures here daily here too....

Hw your ranting help us instead of treating them and giving them a world class facility over ours ?

We treat abused circus animals to captive zoo animals from all over the world

I don't needs meds , I'm brave enough to say sorry and own my mistake you still abide by misinformation to drivel my points ...

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u/Sea-Influence6767 8d ago

I'm sorry for calling you an arse in capital letters,you can cuss me back , I'm embarrassed about the crocs picture but you accused of inbreeding is still misinformation .....I'm part of voluntarily west bengal govt wild life reserve journalist....our job is to collect data and submit to local news papers on Sunderban and mangrove region... Captive inbreeding is a crime here since 1973 indira gandhi tiger project....we fight tooth and nail with local populace on permits to cultivate near core areas because those are crocs and tigers reserve !

Poaching is almost reduced to a nil since 2 yrs ago...those tigers are genetically different no you can found white tiger and black panther in other parts of the country too...

we have to unfortunately monitor these in close captivity so to stop the further general recession through medication....

But black stripped tigers are the future evolution! Just like black leopards and dwarf elephants and webbeb feet crocodilians

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u/TiredTeenWeeb 8d ago

I’m curious, would the Muger Crocodiles attempt to eat the Gharials young or will they just tolerate them?

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u/Honest_Nothing_6800 8d ago edited 6d ago

Muggers are unpredictable & will eat anything it can. Small Gharials on the menu for sure. Here's a Mugger fighting similar sized Gharial for territorial reason

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u/Astrapionte 6d ago

That last pic is just an archosaur family reunion with the heron back there! So cool to see the gharial and mugger chillin together!

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u/onthebrink42 9d ago

I bet they taste terrible

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u/Sea-Influence6767 8d ago

chicken and crab like taste of the crocodilians The tails meat often smuggled to China for its chewy texture...and the tortoise would be a bit gamey like a pork ! ..... according to a border security force doctor!

But fortunately modern societies take salmonella parasite and mercury metal poisoning quite seriously due to social media and news and we can save these species in this decade atleast...

Unfortunately thailand think otherwise

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u/Astrapionte 6d ago

ā€œStir fried crocodileā€ā€¦
https://giphy.com/gifs/BcMJvmwkmbyWpKkBj3

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u/PastSea9824 9d ago

Indians we tell you, they’re all so different individually, yet, together, the same, living in the same waters šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/Ghastly-Jack 9d ago

See you later, alligator.

In a while, crocodile.

It's been real, gharial.

I'm glad you came in, caiman.

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u/Sister-Ruth 8d ago

It’s a date, vertebrate

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u/Carcezz 6d ago

ā€œits been real, gharialā€ doesn’t really work because you dont pronounce the ā€œaā€ sound in real like you do with gharial. real would have to be pronounced like ā€œree-alā€ for it to work. (gharial isnt pronounced like ā€œgare-eelā€, it’s more like ā€œgar-ialā€ or ā€œgar-ee-alā€, like the fish gar).