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How do Crocodiles catch their prey?
Crocodiles live in sluggish streams and lakes, often floating without movement for hours on end, so that an unwary creature might take them for dead. It would soon learn its mistake!
When a crocodile wants to move, it can move very fast indeed. Waiting a little way out from the shore, it will bide its time until, suddenly, swimming strongly and silently with vigorous movements of its flattened tail, it will seize its prey with a snap of its powerful jaws. Then it drags it to deeper water, where it will drown it and eat it.
Not all species of the Crocodiles are meat-eaters, however. The gavials of northern India, for example, have long, thin snouts which are especially adapted to a fish-eating diet.