Crocodylus = Krokodil
General information:
* Live in water + on land
* Survived since dinosaurs -
Nature hasn’t changed them much
* Cold blooded - to get warm…
lie in sun with mouths open/to cool down they lie in shade with mouths
open/tries keeping homeostatic body temperature
* Hardly move most of time -
need to conserve energy/needs to not move much/be lazy to conserve energy… to
maintain its temperature/needs solar heat
* So less
responsibility/leading easy life - both conserve energy to maintain energy
levels
* When it does move - it is
sudden - to go for kill - SUDDEN movement
* Different from mammals/birds
- warm blooded… so activity much more - they are doing/moving - bearing the
responsibility of the child - can regulate temp. through the food he eats…
so he can keep warm
* Croc teeth regrow an indefinite number of times
* Their stomachs are the most
acid of all vertebrate
* ANGER/REVENGE both very
strong
* FEELs
powerful - feeling incredibly powerful…
* All these comes in bursts… of anger/revenge/passion
* Normally solitary
* But plentiful of food can
bring them together
* Don’t fight over food
* Croc - more social than
alligators
* Croc live in groups of 4 or
so
* Croc. Need to communicate
more… closer to mammals than alligator/snake… needing to belong to family etc.
* Croc has 4 chambered heart
like humans. Most reptiles have 3 chambered heart
* Alligators live alone = DD
Croc/Alligator
* Yet being a reptile… still
feel not much support from family… not getting enough - don’t have my family…
yet they have more than snakes…
REPTILES = THREATened
by family
* Snakes FEEL been cheated by
own family/eat their own eggs. No support from family
* Crocodiles - look after
young for 1st year/it’s still some family aspect, but not much/much less than
mammals/feeling of communication/wanting socialisation/communicate by
sound/postures/odours released by
scent glands + by touch
* Killing - croc… once prey is
seized little chance of escape… if prey is larger they do “death roll” to kill
prey. - so can take larger prey/keep prey under rock/hold it there… let it rot…
torture it
* Light sleepers
* Have good vision but can’t
see anything below their nose
Vergleich:
Annona squamosa (= Zimt:apfel/= Zucker:apfel/= Rahm:apfel/= Süß:sack/= pond apple:/=
alligator apple/= bullock's heart:/= cork:-wood/= custard apple/= monkey: apple Magnoliales:).
Krokodilletränen
: [= Tränensekret, das Krokodile während des Fressens absondern].Sechium edule (= chayote/= vegetable pear/= christophene/=
alligator pea/= chayote).
Vergleich: Schlangen - Reptilia
- Lizards - Krokodile;
Mammalia/Aves ó Croc ó Reptilia
Allerlei: Krokodil Gambia Liebesgruppe
Azteken: crocodilians are said to carry the world on their back.