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Old 26-10-2007, 12:44 PM
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Crocodiles are meat eaters and adults will eat, fish, turtles, mammals including zebra and young hippos big cats and people!
Hatchlings eat small prey like insects and frogs. It seems remarkable that the Nile crocodile (found in most parts of Africa south of the Sahara, the Nile valley and Madagasca in swamps, lakes and rivers – even as far as 10km out to sea) that can survive up to a year without food.
They use different techniques for hunting, from laying in wait close to shore with only their eyes above the water for animals to come and drink. The croc’ lunges at its victim seizing it between its jaws, or fells it with a blow from its tail. They will also rush animals or herd schools of fish into a bay with its tail.

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