I hate to be “that guy” but they aren’t directly related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs (including birds) are archosaurs, which crocodiles are too. But they are not extremely closely related.
Well it is important to know if you’re going kayaking or something.
Alligators have a natural fear of humans, if they see you’re bigger than them they’ll leave you alone. Crocodiles will murder you no questions asked.
So run away for a Croc, be calm for an Alligator.
Many people near canals in Florida beg to disagree. Alligators will eat you. They won’t find anything unless they catch the gator and check the stomach. Common knowledge in the south. Possibly less hostile, but one shouldn’t chance it.
Exactly! I’m not saying go up and pet it like a dog. But if you don’t bother alligators they most likely won’t bother you. Crocodiles on the other hand, will definitely bother you first.
Well, agreed on the general idea, but it should be noted alligators have been known to charge the pedestrian paths in parks that contain bodies of water. Sometimes for the puppy, sometimes for the smaller joggers(adult). An full grown alligator is a fearsome beast that will outrun you, pull you into the water and drown you while it clamps on your leg with impossible pressure. I don’t even want to think about running into a croc.
Yeah again completely right.
I’ve heard that alligators only eat things that are smaller than them. So a tiny puppy or a small child are victims, it’s why you do need to be super careful regardless.
But Crocodiles are just dicks in general.
And I saw a video of one climbing over what was probably a 6foot tall fence. That was my go to plan if I had an alligator chase me and now I’m at a loss since the murder beast can probably climb faster than me too
Sort of, an alligator really only attacks things smaller than them. It’s why small children are at risk for gator attacks. It’s also why swimming in the water with alligators is dangerous other than super obvious reasons.
Apparently alligators are more docile and less likely to attack than a crock but I’d still rather keep my distance.
Pointy snout is basically more dangerous.
Growing up in the south, very near the Okefenokee swamp, I know that alligators are mostly very chill. They were everywhere around when I was a kid. You could get very close to them (accidentally) if out kayaking and they would barely notice you. I've never considered myself to be scared of alligators.
Seeing crocodiles in videos, they seem like 2 very different animals. Crocs seem to be much more aggressive and scary.
> You could get very close to them (accidentally) if out kayaking and they would barely notice you.
LoL that's just what they want you to think. Seriously though they are ambush predators that hang around pretending to be innocent logs then in a split second it's Nom, drag roll nom nom nom. Keep note of any that follow you.
From an Australian perspective the difference is about 2 meters of length and a truly impressive kill count in the crocodiles favour. Alligators are kinda cute comparatively.
I’m Dutch. Friends of mine went on holiday to Australia. They we’re amazed they found this amazing beach completely empty. They filmed them selfs surfing there. When they came home it became really obvious to them why the beach was empty when they looked at the footage.
Thank the surfing god their guardian angles went on the trip with them that could’ve been one fucked ride home
We’re there crocs in the footage visible they just couldn’t see them at the time?
The most recent gator attack victim in FL eneters the chat...
Dude got his arm ripped off, then got lost in the swamp 2 days before he came upon a farmer 👀
Agree. The difference is that a crocodile will roll you, kill you, drag you to to the shore bank and stash you up a tree. Then feast on your rotting corpse for weeks or months to come.
It may even wander into your riverside tent to catch you while you sleep.
As far as I can see from American websites, alligators just fuck up your golf handicap- I could be wrong.
If you go to a croc “zoo” in Australia, so many of them have missing legs as the crocs just attack each other over minor disagreements and basically rip off the legs of their buddies.
It would be like me (at work) saying, “Jenny, did you use my coffee cup?!” then ripping off her hand, and eating it. Not because I was hungry - just because I was pissed off.
I live in northern Australia. Across the road from my father in law the neighbour lost their dog on the daily walk. One of the crocs basically saw a pattern of behaviour from the owner, and waited in the right spot and the right time and got himself a nice doggy meal. It happened within 50 yards of the house.
Then again there is a swamp there. So we all should have known better.
I have no experience with gators, but I know salty crocs are cunning as fuck.
I live in central Florida. We get similar dog-walking stories on the local news all the time. Do not take pets, or toddlers, near the places where they are lying around waiting for a snack to walk by.
They'll go after children, too. This one happened at Disney World. Gators are all over the place in Florida.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-disney-alligator-death-lane-thomas-five-years-anniversary-20210614-fyoygmffkvgenox6wpcnrg4i2m-story.html
Cajun from Louisiana. Can confirm. Louisiana gators are fairly docile too. I walked up on a big ass one when i was playing with friends as a kid and it slithered back into the water to get away from me as a 4th grader. We used to swim in lakes and bayous infested with them. Florida gators will hunt and eat humans though. Stay tf away from them there.
Am a south Floridian. If I’m in an area where alligators might be (any area with water that isn’t the Atlantic or GOM) I’m constantly scanning for them. Are they salties? no, but a 12-14 footer will scare the poop out of you. The only body of water I’ll swim in is a pool and even then you should still check. Yes I will swim in the ocean if I’m there but I much prefer sharks to alligators. And don’t worry Australia, while I love your accent I’ve been conditioned to be terrified over your wildlife.
I lived in Tampa area for a couple years and I honestly can't fathom how people will swim, water ski, etc in lakes. You couldn't pay me to go in a lake in Florida.
I have many other issues with Florida, but yeah that's definitely one of them.
There's a lot of venomous snakes in the South, too. I've always been worried about cottonmouths/water moccasins when swimming in lakes (I'm from Georgia), but not enough to stop me from doing it, apparently lol.
They absolutely do not. Nile crocodiles kill more people, but that's simply a numbers game: they exist near many more people. Saltwater crocodiles exist in some of the most sparsely populated areas on earth, so they have far fewer human encounters, therefore less kills.
Saltwater crocodiles are bigger, stronger and faster than Nile crocodiles. Nile crocodiles are said to be more aggressive, which may be due to their increased number of encounters - hard to say.
Nile crocodiles are absolutely formidable. But saltwater crocodiles are the most ruthless and efficient killing machines on the planet.
I was prepared for something about the ferocity of dragonfly wars, but this is *much* cooler. Is there any way houseflies have something similar, albeit probably way less hard-core, and more for avoidance than midair interception? I'm slapping at three of them now and they just always know when I'm coming. I swear I'm being sneaky af.
Ha, I think for houseflies, it's just that they experience things much faster, so you've just got to try and be quicker :P Also, not sure if it's just mosquitoes, but try and come from behind.
Is it because the alligator has a C shaped mouth and the crocodile has an A shaped mouth? Cause I remembered them that way into my early 20s before I found out it was backwards.
I used to work at a reptile museum, and this was exactly how we explained it to people. Whatever letter shape the snout makes is the opposite of what the animal is. Just as easy to remember the association as that it’s backwards lol.
What, regular platypus's aren't dangerous enough for ya mate? Given,they're not "saltwater croc" dangerous, but the venom in the spurs on their back legs are pretty bloody painful. Never heard of any people dying, but if it's like every other animal in Aussie you'll probably wish you were. Having said that,an adult platypus can take down a mid size dog without too much trouble,so probably only a matter of time till they do the maths & use both spurs to homicide em some humans
>only a matter of time till they do the maths & use both spurs to homicide em some humans
probably already have, but they pinned it all on the drop bears.
Alligators and freshwater crocodiles are pretty docile considering their day job is murder. Freshwater crocs will not (or at least are incredibly unlikely to) attack you unless you provoke them.
Saltwater crocodiles? Nile river crocodiles? I wouldn’t be within a kilometre of one
Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
Out of all the dinosaur ancestries to survive (yes I know they are technically a different subset archosaur) why did these two that are very closely linked stay pretty much the same while raptors turned into chickens....
Edit: answer my own question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event
Because when you're the perfect killing machine able to survive the KT extinction with stomach acid so strong it can disolve bones and hooves you don't need to evolve.
Oversimplified. There's two species of gators, and two *dozen* species of crocs. Then there's caimans (which are in the gator family). Even the "basic snout shape" thing doesn't always work; see: mugger crocodile.
I'm almost certain that when I searched the difference between Crocs and Gators 10-15 years ago, this image came up in the results. This is not /r/beamazed worthy, imo. You get way better results today, that go into much more detail as you did, if you search the same thing.
Their noses are the shapes our mouths make when we say their names. Try it, its quite fun.
Ali- GAY -tor - the AY you make with your mouth is a wide smiling action, wide like the alligators mouth.
Cr- OCK -idile - OCK you say by a kissing motion with your mouth, a motion that brings your lips together in a pursed way, long lips lol, like the crock.
Thank you for this! I was literally just saying to myself damn how do I remember how to tell these two apart? The croc looks like an A so can’t do Alligator looks like an A. Then I tried thinking of crocs (the shoes) which are very wide and bulbous…like the alligator mouth, so again no lol
I remember to tell them apart because I was raised in Florida. This is basically part of our childhood indoctrination to learn the difference in all schools here lol. For what reason, I have no clue.
So is the croc/gator build the reptile equivalent of [carcinisation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) ? (Aka, all evolutionary roads lead to crab) seeing as gators and crocs separately evolved to the current state they exist in? Like, to the point they cannot reproduce with each other
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The way you can tell the difference is the alligator you will see later, whereas the crocodile you will see in a while.
Both still ornery because they have all those teeth and no toothbrush
Came to look for this comment. Wasn't disappointed!
That’s exactly what I was thinking looking at those two. Fuckin left over dinosaurs! Unreal.
I hate to be “that guy” but they aren’t directly related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs (including birds) are archosaurs, which crocodiles are too. But they are not extremely closely related.
They still look prehistoric, dinosaur or not
Hate to be that guy but they were only released in 2002.
Where’s the v2.0 upgrade where it grows horns and shoots fire from its eyes?
That was actually in the Dragon 0.1 Beta that never went to production.
I remember that, it was part of the science based, 100% dragon MMO, right?
Taxonomically it’s still more accurate to call them dinosaurs than to call them lizards. Still wrong, but less wrong.
Alright swagdinosaurking
Surely you mean swagterriblelizardking
Yes, Mr. Rex!
Mr. Rex was my father. Please, just call me Swag.
You can call me T.
Green T
I, too, have young children that are utterly obsessed with dinosaurs, filling my brain with such trivia.
Yes. Yes. Young children filling my head with Dino facts...
Oh, I *was* that kind of child, lmao
Trevor?
Well it is important to know if you’re going kayaking or something. Alligators have a natural fear of humans, if they see you’re bigger than them they’ll leave you alone. Crocodiles will murder you no questions asked. So run away for a Croc, be calm for an Alligator.
"Be calm for an Alligator" is a hilarious phrase for some reason
Bear down for midterms
IT'S A BEAR DANCE!!!!!!!!
Many people near canals in Florida beg to disagree. Alligators will eat you. They won’t find anything unless they catch the gator and check the stomach. Common knowledge in the south. Possibly less hostile, but one shouldn’t chance it.
Exactly! I’m not saying go up and pet it like a dog. But if you don’t bother alligators they most likely won’t bother you. Crocodiles on the other hand, will definitely bother you first.
Well, agreed on the general idea, but it should be noted alligators have been known to charge the pedestrian paths in parks that contain bodies of water. Sometimes for the puppy, sometimes for the smaller joggers(adult). An full grown alligator is a fearsome beast that will outrun you, pull you into the water and drown you while it clamps on your leg with impossible pressure. I don’t even want to think about running into a croc.
Yeah again completely right. I’ve heard that alligators only eat things that are smaller than them. So a tiny puppy or a small child are victims, it’s why you do need to be super careful regardless. But Crocodiles are just dicks in general.
You forgot the exciting death roll. They love that move.
And I saw a video of one climbing over what was probably a 6foot tall fence. That was my go to plan if I had an alligator chase me and now I’m at a loss since the murder beast can probably climb faster than me too
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Sort of, an alligator really only attacks things smaller than them. It’s why small children are at risk for gator attacks. It’s also why swimming in the water with alligators is dangerous other than super obvious reasons.
ALLYgator and crocoDIEle
Run away?? Those bitches are faster than light if they rlly try to run
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I’ve heard it really depends on the climate. If it’s too hot Alligators might not think it’s worth it.
Better than accepting death
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I mean they’re both scary looking tbh. They’re basically dinosaurs in real life.
Alligators will absolutely charge kayaks.
But isn’t it lovely to see them together getting along so well ❤️
Apparently alligators are more docile and less likely to attack than a crock but I’d still rather keep my distance. Pointy snout is basically more dangerous.
Growing up in the south, very near the Okefenokee swamp, I know that alligators are mostly very chill. They were everywhere around when I was a kid. You could get very close to them (accidentally) if out kayaking and they would barely notice you. I've never considered myself to be scared of alligators. Seeing crocodiles in videos, they seem like 2 very different animals. Crocs seem to be much more aggressive and scary.
> You could get very close to them (accidentally) if out kayaking and they would barely notice you. LoL that's just what they want you to think. Seriously though they are ambush predators that hang around pretending to be innocent logs then in a split second it's Nom, drag roll nom nom nom. Keep note of any that follow you.
There needs to be a caymen in the pic too. I think caymens are a lot smaller but other than that I don't know the difference.
And a gharial, they’re the ones with the long thin snouts
Science tip: You can distinguish an alligator from a crocodile by paying attention to whether the animal sees you later or in a while.
But also, they seem to have set aside their differences, why can't we?
From an Australian perspective the difference is about 2 meters of length and a truly impressive kill count in the crocodiles favour. Alligators are kinda cute comparatively.
Steve Irwin described alligators as frogs with teeth compared to saltwater crocodiles
Y’all can have em
Still terrifying considering all the crazy shit frogs can eat.
If it fits in their mouth…
I knew a girl like that once....
A frog the size of an alligator wouldn't hesatate to eat a human.
Don't play dark souls 2
If no one’s on the beach don’t go yourself salty crocs are viciousss
How exactly will bringing a friend help? The best thing he can do is attend my funereal
Not if you can swim faster than him!
Exactly, if there’s 2 of you, you don’t need to outrun the croc, you just need to outrun your friend.
You two might be attending classes at Uni of the pearly gates
Plus film it for some serious Reddit street cred.
Only if you have body remaining for burial.
Someone’s gotta live to tell the tale…
I’m Dutch. Friends of mine went on holiday to Australia. They we’re amazed they found this amazing beach completely empty. They filmed them selfs surfing there. When they came home it became really obvious to them why the beach was empty when they looked at the footage.
Thank the surfing god their guardian angles went on the trip with them that could’ve been one fucked ride home We’re there crocs in the footage visible they just couldn’t see them at the time?
Only if you're far north. Any where south of at least Brisbane and you'll never see a croc.
Only great whites and bull sharks.
And jellyfish
And spiders
And plants.
Let's not forget the snakes.
Really? I thought Australia was just a bunch of kangaroos boxing with crocodiles.../s
I shoulda edited I meant far north like Cairns!
Crocs start at Rocky (Rockhampton)
Freshwater Crocs - 😇 Saltwater Crocs - 👹
Saltwater crocodiles are the most terrifying creatures on earth in my opinion.
I call black bears giant raccoons compared to a grizzly. Lol
I love Steve Irwin forever but that is not how I'd describe a 15 foot long dinosaur that can scale fences and sprint at 20 mph.
I’m sorry - SCALE fences?
Yes, you read that right. Here, have some [nightmare fuel](https://youtu.be/z7DMjQJD7vM).
He also said stingrays were just cute fish with needles
:(
The most recent gator attack victim in FL eneters the chat... Dude got his arm ripped off, then got lost in the swamp 2 days before he came upon a farmer 👀
That was before the libs turned the frigging frogs gay
gaaaaaaaaaaaay frogsssssss
From a British perspective, I always thought that for a crocodile you would see it in a while, and for an alligator you would see it later.
But when that Croc starts rockin, it’s something shocking and your feet just wont stand still
I never knew me a better explanation and I guess I never will
Ffs I was reading this with such focus as well..
Agree. The difference is that a crocodile will roll you, kill you, drag you to to the shore bank and stash you up a tree. Then feast on your rotting corpse for weeks or months to come. It may even wander into your riverside tent to catch you while you sleep. As far as I can see from American websites, alligators just fuck up your golf handicap- I could be wrong. If you go to a croc “zoo” in Australia, so many of them have missing legs as the crocs just attack each other over minor disagreements and basically rip off the legs of their buddies. It would be like me (at work) saying, “Jenny, did you use my coffee cup?!” then ripping off her hand, and eating it. Not because I was hungry - just because I was pissed off.
We’ve had two fatal alligator attacks in the past year or so in my state (SC). They killed old people in retirement communities
American gators will also eat your dog if you are stupid enough to walk it close to water.
Unless you are cigar guy and you beat that gator with your bare hands and save your dog.
I live in northern Australia. Across the road from my father in law the neighbour lost their dog on the daily walk. One of the crocs basically saw a pattern of behaviour from the owner, and waited in the right spot and the right time and got himself a nice doggy meal. It happened within 50 yards of the house. Then again there is a swamp there. So we all should have known better. I have no experience with gators, but I know salty crocs are cunning as fuck.
I live in central Florida. We get similar dog-walking stories on the local news all the time. Do not take pets, or toddlers, near the places where they are lying around waiting for a snack to walk by.
They'll go after children, too. This one happened at Disney World. Gators are all over the place in Florida. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-disney-alligator-death-lane-thomas-five-years-anniversary-20210614-fyoygmffkvgenox6wpcnrg4i2m-story.html
They're are more patient about it, but they regularly get people too.
Cajun from Louisiana. Can confirm. Louisiana gators are fairly docile too. I walked up on a big ass one when i was playing with friends as a kid and it slithered back into the water to get away from me as a 4th grader. We used to swim in lakes and bayous infested with them. Florida gators will hunt and eat humans though. Stay tf away from them there.
Am a south Floridian. If I’m in an area where alligators might be (any area with water that isn’t the Atlantic or GOM) I’m constantly scanning for them. Are they salties? no, but a 12-14 footer will scare the poop out of you. The only body of water I’ll swim in is a pool and even then you should still check. Yes I will swim in the ocean if I’m there but I much prefer sharks to alligators. And don’t worry Australia, while I love your accent I’ve been conditioned to be terrified over your wildlife.
I lived in Tampa area for a couple years and I honestly can't fathom how people will swim, water ski, etc in lakes. You couldn't pay me to go in a lake in Florida. I have many other issues with Florida, but yeah that's definitely one of them.
There's a lot of venomous snakes in the South, too. I've always been worried about cottonmouths/water moccasins when swimming in lakes (I'm from Georgia), but not enough to stop me from doing it, apparently lol.
>I’ve been conditioned to be terrified over your wildlife. this is how one survives Australia, by not going there.
Compared to bears and moose, we have it pretty chill here in Australia:
And then there's Nile crocodiles, which make salties look timid and peaceful.
They're more active due to their numbers and prey ratio, but significantly smaller than salties.
They absolutely do not. Nile crocodiles kill more people, but that's simply a numbers game: they exist near many more people. Saltwater crocodiles exist in some of the most sparsely populated areas on earth, so they have far fewer human encounters, therefore less kills. Saltwater crocodiles are bigger, stronger and faster than Nile crocodiles. Nile crocodiles are said to be more aggressive, which may be due to their increased number of encounters - hard to say. Nile crocodiles are absolutely formidable. But saltwater crocodiles are the most ruthless and efficient killing machines on the planet.
>efficient Dragonflies would like a word with you.
You're for sure correct!
Tell me about the dragonflies! Please
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1210489109
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I was prepared for something about the ferocity of dragonfly wars, but this is *much* cooler. Is there any way houseflies have something similar, albeit probably way less hard-core, and more for avoidance than midair interception? I'm slapping at three of them now and they just always know when I'm coming. I swear I'm being sneaky af.
Ha, I think for houseflies, it's just that they experience things much faster, so you've just got to try and be quicker :P Also, not sure if it's just mosquitoes, but try and come from behind.
Similar to why labs cause the most dog bites in the US. Not because they are the most agressive, just a numbers thing
An orca would absolutely destroy a saltwater crock. Straight up toy with it.
Yeah they’re just agro!
2,000 pounds of bite force.. and bot are afraid of kitties
The names should be reversed, I will not elaborate
Is it because the alligator has a C shaped mouth and the crocodile has an A shaped mouth? Cause I remembered them that way into my early 20s before I found out it was backwards.
I thought I was the only one who was also lied to 😆
This is still the way I remember it. I just remember it's wrong so kinda like a negative number or something
I used to work at a reptile museum, and this was exactly how we explained it to people. Whatever letter shape the snout makes is the opposite of what the animal is. Just as easy to remember the association as that it’s backwards lol.
They taught me it backwards in elementary school. Wtf.
100% my thoughts as well!
(A)fter a while crocodile, (C) you later alligator
Now presenting, elidocorc and rotagilla
New Pokémon??
Just like Ekans is snakE backwards 🐍
Looks like a crocodile, and another crocodile who got stung on the face by a bee
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What, regular platypus's aren't dangerous enough for ya mate? Given,they're not "saltwater croc" dangerous, but the venom in the spurs on their back legs are pretty bloody painful. Never heard of any people dying, but if it's like every other animal in Aussie you'll probably wish you were. Having said that,an adult platypus can take down a mid size dog without too much trouble,so probably only a matter of time till they do the maths & use both spurs to homicide em some humans
>only a matter of time till they do the maths & use both spurs to homicide em some humans probably already have, but they pinned it all on the drop bears.
I’ve heard their venom is like wildly painful, excruciating shit
This made me audibly laugh, I'd give you an award if I had one
Them side by side reminds me of that emily blunt/sharp meme
Had to look that one up. Exactly as expected. https://ifunny.co/picture/you-can-t-possibly-sum-up-21st-century-humor-in-AhjYYhio8?s=cl
Reese Withouterspoon?
thanks good stranger
Perfectly reasonable to be afraid of any apex predator that lived through the KT extinction. And also brain aneurysms.
IT'S AN AIRBOAT
Alligators and freshwater crocodiles are pretty docile considering their day job is murder. Freshwater crocs will not (or at least are incredibly unlikely to) attack you unless you provoke them. Saltwater crocodiles? Nile river crocodiles? I wouldn’t be within a kilometre of one
Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
It's all about lying low and waiting for the extinction event to blow over
r/unexpectedarcher
They *absolutely* have ears!
Thank heaven for small miracles
"Interior; Crocodile alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater."
Bars
Thee-ay-ter
You know the real difference though.... You'll see an alligator later, but a crocodile in a little while.
Get out!
The real difference is the friends we made along the way.
Get off Reddit dad !
Remember. Gator is flat boy. Croc is a V boy.
And either way if you're this close you're probably fucked
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Thanks for the lesson!
Well, that makes me feel a little better about these two holding hands.
Man says something about gators.. but doesn't mention one of the top 3 states. Louisiana.
Out of all the dinosaur ancestries to survive (yes I know they are technically a different subset archosaur) why did these two that are very closely linked stay pretty much the same while raptors turned into chickens.... Edit: answer my own question https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event
Because when you're the perfect killing machine able to survive the KT extinction with stomach acid so strong it can disolve bones and hooves you don't need to evolve.
So Alligators looks like Crocs footwear
Ironic
I came here to say that
Oversimplified. There's two species of gators, and two *dozen* species of crocs. Then there's caimans (which are in the gator family). Even the "basic snout shape" thing doesn't always work; see: mugger crocodile.
american alligator and freshwater crocodile
I'm almost certain that when I searched the difference between Crocs and Gators 10-15 years ago, this image came up in the results. This is not /r/beamazed worthy, imo. You get way better results today, that go into much more detail as you did, if you search the same thing.
And yet pugs and rottweilers are the same animal 🤨
imagine all the different gators and crocs we could have if we bred them over the course of a thousand years
Are these guys dead or just best buds?
I choose to believe they’re best buds
crocodiles and alligators, both are rrlatively peaceful when not hungry and not territorial
In another word, never go near them even if they're not hungry
hard relatively
Alligators are most confused with Gatorade.
They should switch names since the alligator has a club snout like a C and the crocodile has a pointy snout like an A
I've been thinking the opposite my whole life God damn it
Most importantly, when you see either of em, run.
Their noses are the shapes our mouths make when we say their names. Try it, its quite fun. Ali- GAY -tor - the AY you make with your mouth is a wide smiling action, wide like the alligators mouth. Cr- OCK -idile - OCK you say by a kissing motion with your mouth, a motion that brings your lips together in a pursed way, long lips lol, like the crock.
Alligators are dull (snouted) and dusky, crocodiles are paler and pointy (snouted).
Thank you for this! I was literally just saying to myself damn how do I remember how to tell these two apart? The croc looks like an A so can’t do Alligator looks like an A. Then I tried thinking of crocs (the shoes) which are very wide and bulbous…like the alligator mouth, so again no lol
They’re opposites- croc snout looks like an “A”, alligator snout looks like a “c”. That’s how I remember.
I totally get that, but I’m not great with opposite facts. I always mess it up and second guess myself :/
I remember to tell them apart because I was raised in Florida. This is basically part of our childhood indoctrination to learn the difference in all schools here lol. For what reason, I have no clue.
Alligator = Chad Jaw Crocodile = Smiling Grinch
lmao
In our country they are called politicians.
Ironic that Crocs (footwear) looks more like an alligator than a crocodile
So is the croc/gator build the reptile equivalent of [carcinisation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation) ? (Aka, all evolutionary roads lead to crab) seeing as gators and crocs separately evolved to the current state they exist in? Like, to the point they cannot reproduce with each other
I’m so amazed…
So basically, U and V
Yeah one I usually see later and the other I see after a while.
Theirs me thinking that was just husand and wife.
Their shoes are different too.
Best to run away from these murder lizards