鱷魚雜文（下）

05-18

鱷魚雜文（下）

來自專欄動物君

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Alligators

crocodiles will sometimes get confused with alligators, there is some differences with the two species. The most notable is the shape of the jaw of both species, the

alligator has a U-shaped jaw while the crocodiles will have a V-shaped jaw and

the crocodile』s teeth will stick over their upper lip when the mouth is closed.

One of the hardest to know about because you would have to get into the crocodile』s mouth, as the crocodile have a salt gland on their tongue to help them live in salt water.

Brutus

One of the most famous crocodiles in Australia, he is a salt water crocodile over 80 years old and weighting over 2 tonnes and 550 centimetres inlength. Brutus is famous

as it likes to jump out of the water to catch food off tourist boats, one of

the main features people notice about this crocodile is that one of its front

feet are missing and is believed to have been eaten by a shark. Brutus shocked tourists in 2014 when they caught evidence of Brutus getting his revenge as he was

eating a bull shark, while Brutus is a celebrity you should keep very far away.

Battle of Ramree Island

During world war 2 there was the battle of Ramree Island, while the battle would have

been scary it was not as scary as what happened after the battle. British soldiers

who participated in the battle stated that many saltwater crocodiles stalked

and trapped Japanese soldiers. A statement by a Britishsoldier said.

That night [of the 19 February 1945] was the most horrible that any member of the M. L. [motor launch] crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch-black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left.... Of about one thousand Japanese soldiers that

entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive.

—?Wright[11]

While some say this is an urban legend it has been placed in the Guinness book of records as the biggest crocodile attack in history

Movie: Lake Placid

If you want to watch a horror movie about a killer crocodile I would recommend lake Placid,the story is about a 914-centimetre Asian Pacific crocodile which is over 150

years old. When a mysterious creature violently kills a man in a Maine lake, Jack Wells, the local game warden, considers the bizarre case, along with Sheriff Hank Keough

and visiting paleontologist Kelly Scott (Looking for clues in a tooth that the

beast left behind, Kelly and the others eventually locate the monster, a

massive and vicious reptile eager to devour anything in its path. Can the

crocodile-like creature be stopped? While horror movies featuring animals as

the bad guy don』t get good rating it is still worth watching.

Conclusion

The crocodile has been on this planet on this planet over 100 million years, in

this time its learn how to adapt to it environment. Its one of the scariest

animals on the planet but it lives by its own rules and if you follow them it

will leave you in peace. That rule is don』t walking into

its home.

中文翻譯：

短吻鱷

短吻鱷與鱷魚通常會讓人混淆，這兩者還是有一定的差異。最明顯的區別體現在兩者的下巴處，短吻鱷有著U型的下巴，但是鱷魚的下巴卻是V型的，鱷魚的牙齒即使在合上嘴時，也能露出來，但是短吻鱷在它合上嘴時，你是看不見牙齒的。鱷魚在舌頭上有著鹽腺，這樣能幫助它們更好得生活在鹽分較高的水域。

澳大利亞最有名的鱷魚是Brutus，它是一條鹽水鱷，已經超過80歲，體重達2噸，身長550厘米。它之所以有名，在於它喜歡跳出水面，來奪取遊船中顧客的食物。後來被有心人發現了奧秘，原來Brutus的前肢缺失，推測是被鯊魚吃了。但是Brutus在2014年上演的一幕卻著實讓人類感到震驚，人們發現Brutus正在吃一條牛鯊，被人們認為是Brutus的復仇計劃，自此以後Brutus就成為了一條名鱷，當然人們也對它也敬而遠之。

蘭里島之戰

二戰期間，蘭里島發生了一場戰役，其慘烈程度恐怕前無古人後無來者。參加了此次戰役的英國士兵聲稱，當時有許多條鹽水鱷徘徊跟蹤在附近，包圍住了日本兵。有一為英國兵這樣描述道：

「那一晚（1945年2月19日）是所有成員所經歷的最恐怖的一晚，步槍隨意在漆黑的沼澤中掃射，伴隨著士兵被鱷魚撕咬時發出的一陣陣哀嚎，這種聲音就像從地獄發出的不和諧之聲，無法在地球上再次複製。黎明時，禿鷲飛來清理鱷魚剩下的殘屍。大約1000名進入蘭里島沼澤地的日本士兵中，只有20人左右被發現還活著。」

-——賴特

同時也有很多人說，這只不過是一個都市傳奇。不過它已經被收錄在吉尼斯記錄中，作為史上鱷魚攻擊數最多的一次。

如果你想看一部關於鱷魚殺人的恐怖片的話，推薦《史前巨鱷》這部影片，那是關於一條體長914厘米、年齡超過150歲的亞太平洋鱷魚的故事。

當得知一種神秘物種以一種相當野蠻的方式在緬因州湖殺死一個人之後，當地的狩獵監督官Jack Wells，覺得此案相當離奇，於是與Sheriff Hank Keough打算一起拜訪古生物學家Kelly Scott，試圖從神秘生物留下來的一個牙齒中發現線索，kelly他們最終將神秘生物聚焦於，一條大型的，邪惡的爬行動物，它會將它前進路上的一切生物吞食掉。這個吃人怪物能最終被降服么？雖然恐怖片中電影為達到驚悚的效果，會將怪物刻畫成一個極其兇殘的形象，給人留下惡劣的形象，但不管怎麼說，還是值得一看的。

總結

鱷魚在地球上已經超過1億年，它已經嫻熟自如的學會了適應這片環境，它是地球上最恐怖的動物之一，但是它們也有自己的原則，你不影響它們的原則，那麼你也會相安無事，這個原則就是，不要走進它們的領域。