Like all large crocodiles, gharials
life begins quite low. Young gharials, a length of 1 m (3.3 feet) in 18
months. The average body weight of the species 159-250 kg (350-550 lb).
Gharials exceeded in length only by the saltwater crocodile. Gharials
tail "well developed laterally flattened and webbed rear feet provide
tremendous maneuverability in their deepwater habitats. On land,
however, an adult gharial only to push forward and slide on the
belly.
Continued improvement of swimming ability, body shape gavial
relatively cylindrical, compared to the larger, more well-built body of
water or a Nile crocodile salt for the detection of different prey
consists edges of streams. The gharial's long narrow snout is
proportionally shorter and thicker as an animal ages. Growth bulb at the
end of the mouth of a crocodile man gharials accessible as sexual dimorphism.
The Nepali word Ghara घड़ा means earthenware pot, water, vase, pitcher.
cheeks are nested, sharp teeth lined 27 to 29 above and 25 or 26 lower
teeth on each side. Opening is a nasal
gharial is smaller than
the above-temporal pit. the front lower edge of the track (Jugal) is
raised and lower jaws is extremely long, arranged in 23 or 24 teeth.
nuchal and dorsal scales form a shield 21 or 22 continuous transverse
series. gavials an outer row of scales soft, smooth or slightly beside
keeled dorsal bone platesTypically, adult gharials dark olive color,
while boys are pale olive, with dark brown spots or cross bands.
Gharials once in all the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent,
spread over prospered rivers in the northern part of the Indus in
Pakistan through the Gangetic plains of the Irrawaddy in Myanmar. Today,
they disappeared in the river Indus, the Brahmaputra of Bhutan and
Bangladesh and in the Irrawaddy River. Their distribution is limited to
only 2% of their former range India are small populations exist and
takes into rivers Chambal National Sanctuary, Katarniaghat Wildlife
Sanctuary, Son River Sanctuary and the rainforest biome of Mahanadi in
Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary, Orissa, where they apparently can not
reproduce.
In Nepal, small populations are present and slowly recovering in
tributaries of the Ganges, the river Rapti-Narayani system in Chitwan
National Park and the Karnali-Babai river system in Bardia National
Park. The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in the Irrawaddy
Delta In 1977, four nests in the river Girwa Katarniaghat Wildlife
Sanctuary, where 909
gharials were published until 2006. In 1978,
twelve nests in the Chambal river in National Chambal Sanctuary, where
3776 and 2006 were released
gharials included. Newborns are
particularly vulnerable to downstream protected areas emptied during the
annual monsoon flooding Unlike most crocodiles.
