Saltwater Crocodile

The saltwater crocodile is one of the three crocodiles in India, the other two are the most common, mugger crocodile and less narrow snout, fish eating Gharial. In addition to the east coast of India, is the saltwater crocodile is extremely rare in the Indian subcontinent. A huge population of saltwater crocodiles (consisting of many large adults, including a 7 meter male) is located inside the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary of Orissa and they are known for.

 

Saltwater Crocodile Credit

In northern Italy (contains the northernmost regions of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland) the Saltwater Crocodile is thriving, particularly in the basins closer to Darwin (as Adelaide, Mary and Daly Rivers, along with their billabong and adjacent estuaries) where large (six-meter +) individuals are not uncommon. The population of saltwater crocodiles in Australia estimated anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 adults.

 

In Australia, the species with the smaller freshwater crocodile or Johnston muzzle close co-exist. Alligator Rivers Region Arnhem Land is the similarity of the Saltwater Crocodile Alligator misleading freshwater crocodiles, which also inhabit the Northern Territory respect. There are overlapping area with Guinea crocodile rarer, less aggressive New. The saltwater crocodile was historically found in South-East Asia, but is now extinct in much of this area.

 

Probably the only country in Indochina still harbors wild populations of this species is Myanmar. Despite the proximity to the crocodile hot-bed of northern Australia, crocodiles no longer exist in Bali. A small population in Ujung Kulon National Park remain in West Java. The saltwater crocodile is also very limited in parts of the South Pacific, with an average population in the Solomon Islands, a very small population, and soon in Vanuatu (where the population is officially only three) (extinct and decent, but the population at risk may rebounds) in Palau.

 

Saltwater crocodiles once ranged as far west as the east coast of Africa, the Seychelles. These crocodiles once believed to be a population of Nile crocodiles, but were later proven to be Crocodylus porosus. Because of their tendency to travel long distances at sea, individual saltwater crocodiles occasionally occur in areas that are not indigenous. In late 2008 and early 2009, a handful of wild saltwater crocodiles are been verified reported in the Fraser River systems Iceland, hundreds of miles live by, and the water is much colder than its Queensland range normally.