Another view of Kakadu Crocs

These three shots show a small drama that took place, while we were out on the South Alligator River. This is a smallish Croc, maybe 8' long who found a fish suffering oxygen depravation, and though he would have a snack. Well crocs don't chew, so when the find something slightly too large to swallow whole, they take it in their Jaws, flick their head and snap it in two gulpable portions. When this fellow carried this method out there were two little white birds about the size of a sandpiper who wanted their share too, the second shot shows the first one dive bombing the croc to try and distract it from the piece of fish near the shore to the left. Of course a croc has to eat too so he was as quick as lightning and was onto the second piece before he had swallowed the first. That didn't discourage the other bird who came down pecking to show his displeasure. Loved these shots, and for your eddification when a large German Tourist nearly fell from the boat trying to get a shot, the tour guide chastized him by reminding us that for larger prey such as the tourist, the croc is forced to do a death roll, in order to twist off a swallow sized bite, and if there wasn't many crocs around the prey may stay there decomposing for weeks. The German guy stayed seated for the rest of the trip! Don't worry he would not have decomposed, we saw hundreds of crocs on that trip, but the birds aren't scared of them.