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The part about the 3000 psi to 5000 psi bite is blatently false. And you know why? Because bite force is not measured in PSI, PSI is a measure of PRESSURE. Pressure increases as an object gets smaller with the same amount of weight behind it, Pressure has to do with area thus. FORCE has nothing to do with area. That episode of Dangerous Encounters you can clearly hear Brady Barr relate the bite results in pounds of force. NOT PSI. So the 3000 psi and 5000 psi figures should be changed to 3000 lbs of force and 5000 lbs of force. Thank you. Regards. DinoJones (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
There's a nice range map over at Wikimedia Commons . Anyone want to be nice and swipe it? :) 68.81.231.127 14:28, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Given the etymology of crocodile, "pebble man/worm," I conjecture that the Greek city name sould be Krokodeilopolis, rather than Krokodopolis, because the man/worm morpheme of the latter seems overly syncopated.
This article was formerly listed as a good article, but was removed from the listing because there aren't any references. Otherwise it's great. Worldtraveller 23:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
I would like to add my page on crocodiles to your external links please: http://www.african-safari-pictures.com/crocodile-pictures.html 198.54.202.82 15:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Some slight clean-up and rephrasing of Introduction to remove redundancies. CFLeon 22:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
For some reason, someone continues to add this sentence when it makes no sense in the context of the article. The preceeding sentence states that elephants and adult hippos are "safe" from crocodiles so it is erroneous and contradictory. Furthermore, lions are listed among the animals in the next sentence so the big cat reference is not necessary. This sentence should remain deleted from the page as it is redundant, contradictory, and overall not useful. 71.248.25.226 00:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The Egyptian Plover and Spur-winged Plover are both claimed to clean crocodile teeth. A photograph of this behaviour would be useful. Drutt 14:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Any reason this section constantly references "butt" or "butts"? Looks like vandalism, but on the off-chance there's some meaning of "butt" I don't know, I'll merely present it for discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.144.64.204 (talk) 18:09, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Due to wikipedia as a source the largest confirmed Nile Crocodile (6.45 m.) is longer than the largest confirmed Saltwater Crocodile wich was hardly longer than 6.3 m. --Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 21:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
~you don't want me too insult you yet you think you can call me names like that and not expect a negative response now how does that work and based on what I have seen on the anaconda disscussion page I think it is safe to say that out of both of us I'm not the idiot here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.100.52 (talk) 20:28, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
"However, adults also have enemies. Rock pythons, hippos, lions and leopards, and rhinos occassionally prey on adult nile crocodiles. The adult nile crocodile's biggest enemie is the rock python. The rock python coils around the crocodile and kills it, than swallows it whole. " I find this highly suspect and removed due to lack of references. First off, rock pythons can take young crocs but I can't imagine it's even physically possible that an adult nile crocodile could be eaten by a python. Leopards are way too small to threaten an adult crocodile, and I've never even heard of an interaction between this water-avoiding cat and water-loving reptile. Hippos and rhinos are herbivores, although hippos may kill crocs out of aggression. Adult crocodiles may be preyed on by lions.
The King of Africa's Killers
The Nile crocodile is such a monstrous and aggressive creature that they have been known to attack adult elephants but not in the way you would think. They will wait for an elephant to come drink then lunge out and bite the trunk and the bite is so powerful that it can break the trunk and this can end up killing or making life harder for the elephant since the trunk is the primary part of an elephant's body that it uses for getting food and water. Now a Nile crocodile 21 feet long weighing 2,400 pounds will slaughter lions, leopards,young or even occasionally teenage or sometimes adult hippos. If a Giraffe came to the water to drink it could probably break it's neck with it's bite. The only threat to a 21 foot 2,400 pound behemoth is a hunter with a big rifle or machine gun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.100.52 (talk) 01:59, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
Ok, here is the general idea. I compiled information scattered around in the whole section into two solid paragraphs of good sourced material with only minor rechecks of previous versions. If you look at 2008 edits, mentions such as separate hunting habitats have been partially removed, whereas this is the key idea here.
Two subsequent paragraphs contain unsourced text and blah about how they hunt. Unless this was written by residents of Kenya, we actually need proof. People see it as unproductive edits because the rest is just bias, so maybe elaborate there. But ummm can we please NOT have undos a/p one person trying to improve the whole article without reaching consensus meeting with same person from the other side? If you don't like what I did, discuss it here BEFORE reverting, and not vice versa, because maybe others will come and improve it.
Or give it at the very least 24 hours. I'd really appreciate that. Shadiac (talk) 05:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't it be said SOMEWHERE in the article that this animal is a carnivore?--Michaelphillipr (talk) 12:20, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
i heard on tv maybe a few years ago that the nile crocodile is nearly extinct. what i heard is that there wasnt enough of them left for the species to survive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.75.209 (talk) 20:15, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Pretty sure that crocs aren't least concern, and somebody forgot to capatalize the LC, so it was probably an intended mess-up. Someone please correct it? I can't because Im no expert on crocs. xP.
Andrew6111 (talk) 13:33, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I've changed Nile Crocodile to Nile crocodile at several places in this article. There seemed no consistency. Please, if you decide to revert, do it selectively, some of them are arguable but others are ridiculous. Andrewa (talk) 23:57, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Here is the complete study that a Spanish team carried on in 2008 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014734 They unveiled the conditions of Saharan crocodiles attesting that they aren't extinct yet, at least in some parts of the desert.
--Bentaguayre (talk) 22:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Something to keep an eye on and at least mention in the article: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/14/nile-crocodile-is-actually-two-species-and-the-egyptians-knew-it/
It was made in 2004, before the west African species was acknowledged as separate. FunkMonk (talk) 03:31, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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Recently, there has been a disagreement on the sizes of extant crocodilians and how the scientific community classifies this data and publishes them. It concerns this article as well, as I see some users are reverting edits, purely with good intensions (goodwill edits). However as these edits are inconsistent and etymologically incorrect, they are harming the article(s). I have listed some crucial points taking one user's edits as a starting point. It is on Talk:Saltwater crocodile, please read carefully before reverting edits on this subject matter. Berkserker (talk) 04:35, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
You can also find a bunch of reliable sources saying that 20 ft (6.1 m) Nile crocodiles usually weigh about 2000 lb (910 kg), and saying that Nile crocodiles are proportionally lighter than Saltwater crocodiles (so lighter at the same length, or even if they are slightly longer), and why are you just talk about that 5 meters corresponds to slightly under 600 kg, compared to the 4.8 meter individual weighed at 680 kg by Graham and Beard (1973), from another habitat/population - more than 25% difference in body weight to length ratio, the opposite can happen, too (so it can be more than 25% lower than expected, too), and you don't have sources for being at a starving state, loss of blood of for a measirung error, but I let you be in the way you want, because I don't wanna be blocked. User:WelcometoJurassicPark (talk) 10:37, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Given the Nile Croc's extensive predation of humans, would it not make sense to list them among its prey in the appropriate section under the 'Mammals' sub-heading under 'Hunting and diet'?Sɑk pʰʌpəʔ (talk) 02:17, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
The Nile Crocodile is considered to be one of the most dangerous reptiles in the world and is responsible for nearly to over 1,000 deaths in Africa every year. One study posited the number of attacks by Nile crocodiles per year as 275 to 745, of which 63% are known to be fatal. Because these reptiles live in close proximity to humans, attacks are frequent which can lead to more possible fatal attacks. Mariofan 520 (talk) 02:17, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
While many of the fossil specimens assigned to the nile crocodile come from the Quarternary, these papers imply that fossil Nile crocodiles have been found as far back as the Miocene. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature00880, https://www.nature.com/articles/318173a0--Bubblesorg (talk) 20:01, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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