saltwater croc
Largest living reptile
Saltwater croc is an informal shortening of saltwater crocodile, the largest living reptile.
Native to coastal regions from India to Australia, saltwater crocs can exceed twenty feet and are notoriously aggressive toward humans.
The term appears frequently in Australian English, where the species is both a genuine hazard and a cultural icon: Watch for saltwater crocs if you're swimming up north.
- estuarineOf river mouths
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- jawsMouth's bony framework
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
lying in wait · mangrove · swamp · Australia · Northern Territory · reptile · teeth · lurking · snout · armored · murky · river crossing · delta · tropical · apex · bite · death roll · riverbank
- reptileslizard, snake, turtle, alligator, python
- apex predatorsgreat white shark, tiger, lion, orca, killer whale
- aquatic predatorsshark, great white shark, great white, tiger shark, bull shark
- Australian wildlifekangaroo, koala, platypus, echidna, wombat
- Crocodiliansalligator, alligators, caiman, caimans, crocodilians
- dangerous animalsshark, cobra, rattlesnake, scorpion, black mamba
saltwater crocfreshwater crocodile
Smaller Australian crocodilian species
freshie · alligator · American alligator · caiman · freshwater fish
salt, water, croc, saltwater, salty, salted, salting, salts, watery