11-25-2004, 06:08 AM
Amazed at some of the "ignorance" shown here. :P
Crocodile tastes a bit like fishy pork, for those of you wondering(the texture of pork, with the taste of fish)
A crocodile's death roll is NOT meant to bring the prey down(it's just a side-effect of the prey being puny comparatively) The simple objective of the death roll(specifically, that of an alpha bull crocodile) is to "break" the carcass(removing a limb), so that there's something other than hide that the smaller crocodiles can eat as well. As a rough guess, I would say few things smaller than an elephant(which would probably not be rollable anyway, which is why crocs avoid them) would survive the shock and subsequent bleeding of having their arm(or any limb) torn off by nearly a ton of flesh spinning at roughly 200 rpm(extrapolated from roughly 3 full rotations a second) I have no idea how to calculate torque, but I imagine that's a pretty significant figure. In short, squat, green and toothy gets about a week's supply of food for kin and friends.
Crocodile tastes a bit like fishy pork, for those of you wondering(the texture of pork, with the taste of fish)
A crocodile's death roll is NOT meant to bring the prey down(it's just a side-effect of the prey being puny comparatively) The simple objective of the death roll(specifically, that of an alpha bull crocodile) is to "break" the carcass(removing a limb), so that there's something other than hide that the smaller crocodiles can eat as well. As a rough guess, I would say few things smaller than an elephant(which would probably not be rollable anyway, which is why crocs avoid them) would survive the shock and subsequent bleeding of having their arm(or any limb) torn off by nearly a ton of flesh spinning at roughly 200 rpm(extrapolated from roughly 3 full rotations a second) I have no idea how to calculate torque, but I imagine that's a pretty significant figure. In short, squat, green and toothy gets about a week's supply of food for kin and friends.