When you see an American crocodile in the wild, where could it be found?
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Bayou In usage in the United States, a bayou ( or , from Cajun French) is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area, and can be either an extremely slow-moving stream or river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), or a marshy lake or wetland. The term "bayou" can also refer to a creek whose current reverses daily due to tides and which contains brackish water highly conducive to fish life and plankton. Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States, notably the Mississippi River Delta, with the states of Louisiana and Texas being famous for them. A bayou is frequently an anabranch or minor braid of a braided channel that is moving much more slowly than the mainstem, often becoming boggy and stagnant. Though fauna varies by region, many bayous are home to crawfish, certain species of shrimp, other shellfish, catfish, frogs, toads, American alligators, American crocodiles, herons, turtles, spoonbills, snakes, leeches, and many other species.
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American crocodile The American crocodile ("Crocodylus acutus") is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas. Populations occur from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of southern Mexico to South America as far as Peru and Venezuela. It also lives on many of the Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Grand Cayman.
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American pygmy shrew The American pygmy shrew ("Sorex hoyi") is a small shrew found in Northern Alaska, Canada and the northern United States, south through the Appalachian Mountains. It was first discovered in 1831 by naturalist William Cane in Georgian Bay, Parry Sound.
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Synodontis khartoumensis Synodontis khartoumensis is a species of upside-down catfish that is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Uganda where it occurs in Lake Albert and the Nile basin. It was first described by Yousif Babiker Abu Gideiri in 1967. The original specimens were obtained in the Blue Nile, about 2 miles away from the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile, near Khartoum, Sudan. The species name "khartoumensis" is derived from the city of Khartoum, where the type species was originally found.
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Sarcosuchus Sarcosuchus ( ; meaning "flesh crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived 112 million years ago. It dates from the early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa and South America and is one of the largest crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived. It was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater crocodile and weighed up to 8 tons.
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Rough-toothed dolphin The rough-toothed dolphin ("Steno bredanensis") is a species of dolphin that can be found in deep warm and tropical waters around the world.
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Lazarussuchus Lazarussuchus (meaning "Lazarus's crocodile") is a genus of basal choristodere, a type of amphibious reptile, known from France, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Fossils have been found in Late Paleocene, Late Oligocene, and Early Miocene deposit, meaning that the genus lasted about 40 million years. Two species have been named: the type species "L. inexpectatus" ("unexpected") (Hecht, 1992) from the late Oligocene of France and Germany and "L. dvoraki" (for Zdeněk Dvořák) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic. It was not a large animal; the skull of "L. inexpectatus" was only about 4.53 centimeters long (1.78 in). A complete specimen of "Lazarussuchus" with preserved soft tissue was found from the Late Paleocene of France, but has not been assigned to a species.
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Florida stone crab The Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Belize, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, The Bahamas, and the East Coast. The crab can also be found in and around the salt marshes of South Carolina and Georgia. It is widely caught for food. The closely related species "Menippe adina" (gulf stone crab) is sometimes considered a subspecies – they can interbreed, forming hybrids – and they are treated as one species for commercial fishing, with their ranges partly overlapping. The two species are believed to have diverged approximately 3 million years ago.
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Green iguana in captivity The Green Iguana ("Iguana iguana") has become popular in the pet trade – over 800,000 animals were imported into the United States alone during 1995, primarily originating from captive farming operations based in their native countries (Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, and Panama). In 1998 a National Iguana Awareness Day (NIAD) was established to discourage consumers from viewing iguanas as "disposable pets". Despite the low cost and "mass market" appeal of these animals they are demanding to care for properly over the course of their lifetimes. More often than not, diet, lighting, and other housing conditions for green iguana are inadequate (in a major way) causing 70% of green iguanas in captivity to die within their first year of life.
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Crocodile Zoo, Falster The Crocodile Zoo (Danish: "Krokodille Zoo" ) is a zoo on the Danish island of Falster. It is located just to the southwest of Gundslevmagle, northeast of Eskilstrup, towards the northern centre of the island. Established in 2000, the zoo has the world's largest collection of crocodilians (crocodiles and relatives) with all 23 existing species (same as St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park). This includes the only Orinoco crocodiles outside the Americas, which are part of a breeding program involving US zoos and the Venezuelan government. Their male Nile crocodile "Sobek", at more than 5 m long and 600 kg in weight, is the largest crocodilian in Europe, and "Medusa", a 6.3 m reticulated python, is among the largest snakes in Europe.
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Mali cobra The Mali cobra ("Naja katiensis"), also called the Katian spitting cobra, is a species of spitting cobra found in West Africa.
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Gavialosuchus Gavialosuchus is an extinct tomistomine from the late Oligocene and Miocene of eastern North America and early Miocene of Europe. Three species have been named: the type species "G. eggenburgensis" from the early Miocene of Austria; "G. americanus", from the late Miocene to early Pliocene of Florida; and "G. carolinensis", from the late Oligocene of South Carolina. Another species, as yet unnamed, may be present in the Miocene of Georgia. Unlike its modern fresh water relatives, "Gavialosuchus" was an estuarine and coastal water crocodilian, living in shallow marine waters alongside "Metaxytherium", "Pomatodelphis", and "Hemipristis serra". It was long-snouted and large: "G. carolinensis" was at least 5.37 meters long (17.3 ft), and one specimen of "G. americanus" is estimated at 9.75 m long based on a 132 cm -long skull.
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Gomek Gomek was a large saltwater crocodile captured by George Craig in Papua New Guinea. He was purchased by Terri and Arthur Jones in 1985 and was kept in Ocala, Florida, for five years before being sold to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida. For 8 years he wowed spectators with both his amazing nutria-tossing abilities and his even more amazing tolerance of people. Feeders of the large croc were allowed to go into the enclosure and get as close as 1 metre from the large animal (a normally suicidal proximity) without any fear of attack. While feeders still used long tongs to feed Gomek, he was generally considered to be a "tame" crocodile and was the favorite of the alligator farm and people around the nation.
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Alligatoroidea Alligatoroidea is a superfamily of crocodilians that evolved in the Late Cretaceous period. Cladistically, alligatoroidea is "Alligator mississippiensis" (the American alligator) and all crocodylians more closely related to "A. mississippiensis" than to either "Crocodylus niloticus" (the Nile crocodile) or "Gavialis gangeticus" (the gharial).
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Orinoco crocodile The Orinoco crocodile ("Crocodylus intermedius") is a critically endangered crocodile. Its population is very small and it can only be found in freshwater environments in Colombia and Venezuela, in particular the Orinoco River and its tributaries. Extensively hunted for their skins in the 19th and 20th centuries, this species is one of the most critically endangered species of crocodiles. It is a very large species, in fact the largest species of crocodilian and predator in the Americas. Males have been reported up to 6.6 m in the past, but such sizes do not exist today, 5.2 m being a more widely accepted maximum size. Males average at 4.1 m in length weighing 380 kg , while females are slightly smaller averaging 225 kg . Sexual dimorphism is not as profound as in some other species. The coloration is light even in adults.
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Pallid spiny softshell turtle The Pallid spiny softshell turtle ("Apalone spinifera pallida") is a subspecies of softshell turtle native to the United States, in the states of Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
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Australian buffalo The Australian buffalo also known as the Australian swamp buffalo is a feral breed of water buffalo found in the Northern Territory.
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Pampas cat The Pampas cat ("Leopardus colocolo"), also known as the colocolo or Pantanal cat over parts of its range, is a small wild cat native to South America. It is named after the Pampas, but occurs in grassland, shrubland, and dry forest at elevations up to 5000 m .
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North American river otter The North American river otter ("Lontra canadensis"), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts. An adult river otter can weigh between 5.0 and . The river otter is protected and insulated by a thick, water-repellent coat of fur.
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Pocho (crocodile) Pocho (around 1950-1960 in Reventazón River, Costa Rica – October 12, 2011 in Siquirres, Costa Rica) was an American crocodile who became world famous for his relationship with Gilberto "Chito" Shedden, a local area fisherman. Shedden had found Pocho dying on the banks of the Reventazón River, and took the crocodile in, nursing him back to health. The crocodile refused to return to the wild and chose to stay with Chito instead. The pair became famous after they began performing together.
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Acrocanthosaurus Acrocanthosaurus ( ; meaning "high-spined lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Like most dinosaur genera, "Acrocanthosaurus" contains only a single species, "A. atokensis". Its fossil remains are found mainly in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming, although teeth attributed to "Acrocanthosaurus" have been found as far east as Maryland.
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River cooter The river cooter ("Pseudemys concinna") is a freshwater turtle native to the central and eastern United States, from Virginia south to mid-Georgia, west to eastern Texas, Oklahoma, and north to southern Indiana. They are usually found in rivers with moderate current, as well as lakes and tidal marshes.