Croc's World 3 instal9/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Salties regularly eat each other, and it seems if they are related, the risk is worse. They are the top of the food chain, but crocs are not without their enemies. “Fishermen and women who’ve fished certain places over and over and think they know the risks, and have their wits about them. ![]() “It’s not so much tourists who get eaten by crocs,” Charlie tells us. The pied cormorant tends to eat its catch in the water, making it easy pickings for crocs. And I feel privileged and thrilled to have shared his tank for a while. If there is such a thing as a “contented croc” Chopper is it. Lots of sunlight, a regulated water temperature and the knowledge his next meaty meal - normally delivered at the end of a string on a stick - is never far away. That is testimony to the life he leads at Crocosaurus Cove. He just seems so docile, so calm, so unmoved by my presence. Fortunately he seems wearily unimpressed by me and I actually have to restrain myself from slipping my hand out the cracks of the cage and giving him a little tickle. Just a bit of reinforced plastic between me and Chopper - the third largest crocodile in captivity at a mammoth 5.5 metres and 790 kilograms. It doesn’t help that I’ve just seen a poster showing the superhero power of a croc’s jaws - capable of crushing the skull of a human like a snow pea. Yes I acknowledge I am about to do something that carries “significant risk of serious injury”. The indemnity form almost does not bear reading. It is these villains of the crocodile world that are the main attraction at the Cove - and the headline act of the ominously named “Cage of Death”. Feeding the croc at Crocosaurus Cove, Darwin. ![]()
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