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THE ADDO RAPTOR & REPTILE CENTRE - CROCODILES
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RANGE: Tropical and Southern Africa and Madagascar
HABITAT: Rivers, freshwater marshes, estuaries, and swamps.
HABITAT: Rivers, freshwater marshes, estuaries, and swamps.
NILE CROCODILE / Crocodylus niloticus
Hunted close to extinction in the 1940s through the 1960s, local and international protections have helped them rebound in most areas. In some regions, pollution, hunting, and habitat loss have severely depleted their numbers.
DESCRIPTION: The Nile crocodile is the largest of the four crocodile species found in Africa. Juvenile Nile crocodiles are dark olive to brown with darker crossbands on tail and body. Adults are uniformly dark with darker crossbands on tail.
SIZE: Averaging approximately 5 m (16 ft.) with maximum size of roughly 6 m (20 ft.)
WEIGHT: Adults of both sexes may easily exceed 225 kg (500 lb.)
DIET: Up to 70% of the adult diet is fish. Other prey include zebras, hippos, porcupines, migrating wildebeest.
INCUBATION: +/- 3 months. Nest November and December on shorelines, dry stream beds or riverbanks.
CLUTCH SIZE: 25-100 eggs, which are covered with sand and guarded
LIFE SPAN: Average 45 years (wild), may live to 80 years (captivity)
Hunted close to extinction in the 1940s through the 1960s, local and international protections have helped them rebound in most areas. In some regions, pollution, hunting, and habitat loss have severely depleted their numbers.
DESCRIPTION: The Nile crocodile is the largest of the four crocodile species found in Africa. Juvenile Nile crocodiles are dark olive to brown with darker crossbands on tail and body. Adults are uniformly dark with darker crossbands on tail.
SIZE: Averaging approximately 5 m (16 ft.) with maximum size of roughly 6 m (20 ft.)
WEIGHT: Adults of both sexes may easily exceed 225 kg (500 lb.)
DIET: Up to 70% of the adult diet is fish. Other prey include zebras, hippos, porcupines, migrating wildebeest.
INCUBATION: +/- 3 months. Nest November and December on shorelines, dry stream beds or riverbanks.
CLUTCH SIZE: 25-100 eggs, which are covered with sand and guarded
LIFE SPAN: Average 45 years (wild), may live to 80 years (captivity)
• Sebek - (male) Egyptian 'God of the water' called 'crocodile god'. Crocodile in shape with
CENTRE - CROCODILES
a crown of plumes, possessing the strength and nature of a crocodile, Egyptians fear and respect, symbol of the Pharaoh's power. The Nile, which was full of crocodiles, was
The Raptor and Reptile Centre cares for four Nile Crocodiles:
important to their livelihood.
• Footloose - (female) lost a foot to another crocodile
• Tag - (male) has an ID tag on hind leg
• Little Girl - (female) smallest and greediest.
• Footloose - (female) lost a foot to another crocodile
• Tag - (male) has an ID tag on hind leg
• Little Girl - (female) smallest and greediest.