Is This The Largest Nile Crocodile In The World?!

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[00:00:00]Today is all about Nile crocodiles and we're going to measure all of our Nile crocodiles and find out if we have the biggest Nile crocodile in the world, but we're going to get a measurement on everyone. So, come on. Let's go. The Blondie is over there and she is on her nest cavity. So, we're not going to bother her today. We're just going to try to get a measure on Sultan. I mean, the water's not deep. You want to get in and do it?

[00:00:23]>> No.

[00:00:24]>> Why?

[00:00:24]>> I'm not getting my shoes all wet.

[00:00:26]>> And don't take them to the rock. We need them flat out, >> Sultan.

[00:00:30]Blondie's the wild card in this video right now. I don't want to go close to her. It's all >> right. Here, give me that. He is crooked a little bit. It looks like there's a piece of his tail missing. Actually, >> he's always had that.

[00:00:42]>> Oh, see if I can straighten his tail.

[00:00:44]>> Straighten his tail. Well, I can't straighten his head.

[00:00:46]>> Okay, hang on. I thought you could.

[00:00:48]That's your boy, right? Okay. Oh, Sultan. Well, he's not perfectly straight. Oh, he didn't like that. Nope. He don't want us to measure his tail.

[00:01:01]>> A little hoy and puffy.

[00:01:02]>> That's cuz That's cuz huffy and puffy.

[00:01:05]His mouth coming open.

[00:01:06]>> He doesn't want us to do this. Here you go. There. That's the best I got. And it ain't straight.

[00:01:10]>> 11 ft 9 in.

[00:01:13]>> All right. If it was straight, I would probably put it at 125.

[00:01:16]>> I think you'd be about 12. At least 12.

[00:01:19]>> He's very confused this morning.

[00:01:21]>> He is not happy. He's not He's not about that. Well, good morning, bud. We're just uh getting your statistics. tell you how you can tell a crocodile is either angry or excited is when you can see the whites of their eyes. You see the whites in his eyes right there? That means he's not about our nonsense this morning.

[00:01:37]>> He's not about it at all.

[00:01:38]>> Crocodiles in general are just amazing animals and people have known that way, way back in ancient times. So today you're going to learn a lot about Nile crocodiles and we're also going to find out if we have the largest Nile crocodile here at Gatorland. I'm pretty sure we do. L the Nile crocodile is a giant. Mike, tell us a little bit about Sobeek, the Nile crocodile.

[00:02:00]>> So wasn't a Nile crocodile per se. He was a deity, a god that was worshiped.

[00:02:06]And he had the body of a man, the head of a crocodile. So was considered the pharaoh's protector. And being, you know, the crocodile spirit, it was good to have the crocodile on your team and aim it at your enemies than the other way around. So you definitely want Sobeck on your team. This sign's talking about Crocodopoulos, which is basically an ancient city. It was stumbled upon in 1889. Group of archaeologists found it.

[00:02:28]And they used to mummify crocodiles as well. You never hear about them mummifying crocodiles, but they did the same procedure on them that they did with the people and the pharaohs back then. Hey guys, this is Chris and Gabby of Bellowing Anchors, and we are here with Akila, the Nile crocodile, who's actually the daughter of Salted and Blondie. And she was actually our first crocodile here at the sanctuary that was gifted to us by Gatorland. Akila, you're sitting on it. You got a wrap for her.

[00:03:12]So, she came in at 7'4 and uh we're going to see. She's sitting still. She's not exactly straight, but if I extend this out, Gabby, you might be able to grab the end of it and straighten her tail.

[00:03:25]>> You're out of your mind.

[00:03:28]>> So, you got to come uh over a little bit.

[00:03:31]>> That's pretty straight.

[00:03:33]>> Yeah. I mean, that puts her at 8 foot five. Do you want to try to straighten her tail?

[00:03:39]>> Do you think she's gonna let me?

[00:03:40]>> I think so. Okay. I did it the other day and all she did is hit >> Hold that. Should I try to grab and move it over or just push it?

[00:03:46]>> Very gently. Just try to scoot it a little bit. She'll let you know if she's not happy.

[00:03:53]>> Uh, that's pretty good.

[00:03:54]>> That's pretty darn straight. You're right at the tip right there.

[00:03:57]>> Right at the tip there.

[00:03:58]>> Yep. What a good girl.

[00:03:59]>> Yeah. No, that's 84. She's grown almost exactly. Yeah, exactly a foot in two years. I think if you were to actually straighten her out properly, you probably get probably two inches out of that. You know, she's not entirely straight, but uh yeah, it's pretty awesome to see.

[00:04:17]>> A long, long time ago, they used to take the backs of crocodiles and they would cut those backs off. Now, see if you look at this picture, it's all the scoots that would be on the back of a Nile crocodile. And they would put those on, one on the front, one on the back, and they would use those for armor because almost nothing can pierce crocodile skin or especially those osteoderms or those free floating bones that are in every crocodilian species.

[00:04:41]This is what an osteoderm actually looks like. So, you're going to be able to see that there are these heat pits in here.

[00:04:46]An osteoderm itself means free floating bone. So, this is that free floating bone. And then this right here that you see, you know how alligators and crocodiles look like heavy metal and those spikes sticking up off the back?

[00:04:57]That's what that is right there. There is almost nothing that can penetrate this bone other than perhaps the jaw pounding pressure of another Nile crocodile or something along those lines. Osteoderms are some of the coolest things you can ever see. This one is of course from one of our animals that passed away years ago, it looks like, but we keep it so we can teach little kids and so that we can teach adults alike about alligators and crocodiles.

[00:05:24]>> Mike's catching a baby Nile crocodile right now. At least he's trying to. Oh, Jos's going to be to the rescue. Josie, you don't you got water shoes on. Can you come grab this little Nile crocodile? Mike can't catch crocodiles.

[00:05:38]Josie, it has to be you. Mike's been trying for like 30 minutes now.

[00:05:43]>> I'm not getting wet.

[00:05:44]>> We have ourselves a little baby Nile.

[00:05:46]This is last year's hatchling. This is a blondie baby. This, and you can tell, look how light the skin is. This is a Sultan and Blondie hatchling. When they come out of the egg, they're about 6 to 7 in long. And you can see this is well over a foot by now. They grow about a foot a year on average. Uh you can kind of control that by how much food they have and the temperature you keep them at. But look how long the tail is. It's like the body. Yep.

[00:06:12]>> I can hear it.

[00:06:14]>> I don't know why you shouldn't stop and hear it.

[00:06:16]>> Look how long the tail is in relation to the body. If I were to fold this right on up, the tail actually is more than half the body length. So, you can see how long that is. And that helps propel them through the water. And it's really hard to believe that something that starts out at 6 7 in long gets to be 21 ft and will eat analopee, wilderbeast, gazels, people, baby hippos. Like this is a top apex predator over there in Africa and they eat some big dangerous animals and they start out so teeny tiny and so cute. Not so cute right now.

[00:06:46]>> There's Lyall.

[00:06:48]>> Tamalei, what are you doing? Tamalei.

[00:06:51]Tamalei, you got a little something on your face, BUDDY. WHAT? OH NO, TAMALEI'S TRAPPED. THE OTHER alligator came. Oh, there's an entrance and an exit. Uh-oh.

[00:07:00]Uh-oh. Lyall put his back up. He's asserting his authoritie. You be nice to Tamalei or me and you are going to have problems. Lyle.

[00:07:08]>> Hey big fella. You got a smile? Come on.

[00:07:11]Come on. Hi bud. Oh, easy.

[00:07:15]>> He doesn't like it when we come in other areas.

[00:07:18]>> Stop. STOP.

[00:07:24]>> WHAT ARE YOU ALL ABOUT?

[00:07:26]>> TOUCH MY NOSE. Don't you touch my nose.

[00:07:28]>> Look, that little alligator went underneath him.

[00:07:30]>> Oh, probably a bad time to be bumping into him.

[00:07:33]>> Yep. What happened, Lyall? Man, that is a massive crocodile.

[00:07:37]>> Now, we got to take a quick break from our Nile crocodiles to go feed our South Island where all the big alligators hang out. Ly might come visit us.

[00:07:46]>> Yeah, we're going to go and stuff. Yeah.

[00:07:48]>> Mike, wait for me. Busy day. Excuse me.

[00:07:53]>> Why are you walking so slow?

[00:07:55]>> What?

[00:07:56]>> Why are you going so slow?

[00:07:57]>> I'm filming, man. He doesn't get it.

[00:07:59]Everything's not a race.

[00:08:00]>> I disagree. Everything is not a race.

[00:08:03]>> As much as you can get done in the shortest amount of time, always.

[00:08:06]>> That's not how YouTube works, Mike.

[00:08:08]>> No, that's how life works.

[00:08:10]>> Yeah. Well, we're YouTube life right now.

[00:08:12]>> This took me the entire weekend from like the bare wall to the sketch. I got all the detail and the painting. It took me like from the beginning of Saturday Saturday all the way to Sunday night.

[00:08:23]>> Do you believe that?

[00:08:24]>> Yeah.

[00:08:25]>> Do you believe that?

[00:08:25]>> I believe it. I believe it.

[00:08:26]>> OH MY GOSH. IT'S SO NOT TRUE.

[00:08:29]>> YES. HOW ARE YOU guys saying yes?

[00:08:32]>> Mike saved your parking spot like a Karen.

[00:08:34]>> That was nice. Well, >> I didn't know you I didn't know you guys were going that way. Back up and then pull it. Yeah, Dave will Dave will have your head on a stick.

[00:08:40]>> Sounds like Oscar's a car now. YOU CAN'T PARK LIKE CASH.

[00:08:43]>> WELL, I KNOW DAVE'S in the parking lot.

[00:08:45]He don't like that.

[00:08:46]>> How do you deal with all the drama in your most tune it all out?

[00:08:50]>> Hey, hey, back to me. In the state of Florida, you don't have front plates, so you're not supposed to back in technically into a parking spot. Just helping you all out. We need an introduction for everybody.

[00:09:00]>> Hi, I'm Kevin. New here. How you doing?

[00:09:02]>> Uh, my name is Odin. I'm newer than him.

[00:09:04]Jesse, I'm Ben.

[00:09:05]>> Say something in Spanish to our Spanish fans out there.

[00:09:16]>> He said, "I like cheeseburgers."

[00:09:18]That was the translation.

[00:09:24]>> He's saying there's a lot of meat coming out here for the animals. and he is also helping me learning more Spanish so that I can get my messages out there to everyone.

[00:09:33]>> Dang, baby, you got >> no body shaming, Oscar.

[00:09:37]>> Damn, baby. You look good.

[00:09:39]>> I can't believe that Lyall dumped his alligator girlfriend, you know.

[00:09:42]>> Did he?

[00:09:43]>> Yeah, that's why she's always down here now.

[00:09:46]>> Come on, GUYS.

[00:09:48]>> WHOA, BUD. Come on. You can do it. You can do it.

[00:09:54]Come on, get her.

[00:09:57]>> Hey, jumper. What's happening right there? Just a little tussle over the food. All right, you guys are too wild over here. I got to go back to the other side. Man, it's wild on the other side.

[00:10:07]>> Over here.

[00:10:08]>> There's death rolls going on. All kinds of crazy stuff.

[00:10:10]>> Hey, can you do me a favor? Can you get the water bottle out of my pocket?

[00:10:14]>> Whoa. Whoa. Watch your finger.

[00:10:15]>> You watch yours. Hey.

[00:10:18]>> Hey. Hey. What are you doing?

[00:10:21]They didn't.

[00:10:22]>> Look at everybody eating.

[00:10:26]Lined up nice and polite. Look, there's Larry.

[00:10:30]>> Larry.

[00:10:31]>> Larry, you're stuck. Hi, guys.

[00:10:34]>> Look at that big head. Oh my goodness.

[00:10:37]>> There you go. Come on.

[00:10:38]>> That's Larry. Larry, you look Larry, you're so big.

[00:10:44]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:10:48]>> What are you doing, buddy? What are we doing? All right, let's go see what's happening on the wild side.

[00:11:01]So, for everybody that's asked, how do we make sure everybody gets fed? It's just like this. But then we also do go walk around and spot feed at different areas and things like that for the ones of them that may not have made it to us when we are doing a big feeding like that. So, we go throughout the whole park, make sure everybody's taken care of, and I guarantee you won't see any skinny ones out here.

[00:11:22]>> Get out. Go. What are you doing, dude?

[00:11:25]See him TAKING STEPS?

[00:11:27]>> COME ON. GO. HE'S LIKE, "YOU jump in, I'll jump in."

[00:11:29]>> Now he's going to be in the way.

[00:11:32]>> Well, that's Mike's job. If you keep him bay over here >> trying to get Freddy, crop, >> she's moving this way.

[00:11:39]>> She's in the water.

[00:11:40]>> Walkway.

[00:11:41]>> No, she's Yeah, she's like between us and the wall. You see those bubbles? I think that's it.

[00:11:45]>> One for you. One for you. Come on, >> Larry.

[00:11:49]>> One for you.

[00:11:49]>> Larry is back there.

[00:11:51]>> Larry, how do you never do videos anymore, buddy? Ah, >> Larry. All right, now that that's done, >> back to the Nile crocodiles.

[00:12:02]>> Even though these are apex top predators, once they get 3 ft, the only thing they have to worry about really is larger crocodiles and people >> and hippos >> and hippo. Well, hippos, everything has to worry about hippos.

[00:12:14]>> Hippos like to punk crocodiles. Like when I watch National Geographic, I always see some kind of hippo trying to punk a little crocodile.

[00:12:21]>> But I mean, the hippos aren't looking to go eat or do anything to the crocodiles.

[00:12:25]The crocodiles usually come into their space and then the hippo will defend it.

[00:12:30]And they got a great set of chompers for defending their space. But it's talking about chompers. Look at this guy's teeth. Look how how sharp they are.

[00:12:37]Right around 76 very very sharp needle teeth. You can see what I'm stroking here is right underneath. That's the tongue and it's attached. The reason the tongue is attached is because the way they get bite-sized pieces when they get larger prey is they start shaking and rolling and thrashing around. And if their tongue was not attached, it's liable to be damaged by the animals they're trying to eat. And they might even bite it off themselves. And they have this thing called elliptical pupils. If you look, their pupil goes up and down. And no matter what angle you hold them at, pupil stays perfectly straight up and down. That's because their entire life is on a horizontal plane and that's when tonic immobility comes into place. Crocodile alligator is upside down. It works in sharks as well.

[00:13:17]It disorients them and they have to figure out their upside down. It takes them a minute and then they can turn themselves back over. But that's essentially what tonic immobility is is where they get a little confused when their whole world gets flipped upside down. This is a Blondie baby. We get eggs from Blondie every year. Not all of them are always fertile. She's getting up there in her age. So is Sultan. Every few years we do get a good clutch. Last year was a good year. So, we got a few of these uh babies. And if you look at the pigment in the skin, crocodiles are a lot like people. People are different shades due to pigment. She has that zanthic uh phase of coloration, which uh she lacks some of that darker coloration. This baby also has looks like it's going to have that same condition. It's kind of a recessive trait.

[00:13:58]>> All right, so Oscar is coming with us >> and Oscar is going to kick it off.

[00:14:03]>> Let's do it.

[00:14:03]>> Wild the Nile crocodile.

[00:14:05]>> Oh, you tell us, man.

[00:14:08]Yes. Wow. Here.

[00:14:10]>> What did >> Come on.

[00:14:13]Come on. Wow. Here.

[00:14:15]>> Dang. That's a big crocodile, man.

[00:14:18]>> Yeah, it is. Now, you can see this is about a 15t 1500 lb crocodile right here. HE'S A LOT MORE AGILE today than I thought he would be.

[00:14:25]>> It's spring, Oscar. Spring is sprung.

[00:14:28]>> I see that. That is a absolutely massive crocodile. Look at that. Look at the base of his tail. I mean, that is wider than my torso right there. When I was in front of him, his head is about the length of my torso, which is absolutely insane. Now, we got him in a really good spot right now. I think we measure him while we got a second. Now, you can see he's missing a piece of his tail, so we're probably going to add on a little bit for that.

[00:14:52]>> More meat. More meat. And I got this.

[00:14:54]>> Well, we want him to stay calm for a second. I don't know if the meat's going to be what we need right now. We're going to try to get a measurement on him, but he's hot.

[00:15:00]>> Now, we're in a pickle with that meat >> or the back. I don't know.

[00:15:04]I want to make him turn around.

[00:15:09]>> Come on.

[00:15:11]>> Oscar's getting rid of another alligator over there.

[00:15:13]>> Yeah, I got to turn him around.

[00:15:14]>> Trying to trying to sneak up.

[00:15:16]>> Before we measure, what's your guess?

[00:15:17]>> I'm guessing 16 ft.

[00:15:20]>> I'm going to say 154.

[00:15:21]>> Oo. I'm I'll go 155. Price is right rules.

[00:15:25]>> Okay.

[00:15:26]>> Okay.

[00:15:26]>> All right.

[00:15:26]>> We'll give him that big piece of meat as a reward afterwards.

[00:15:29]>> You sure you got enough tape measure in there? He's huge.

[00:15:32]>> I know. We needed a 100T tape measure.

[00:15:34]You got to remember he's also missing like almost a foot of his tail.

[00:15:37]>> All right. So Oscar's got it. Oh, Oscar's got it from the front. I got it from the back. So if you come back here, my finger's at 16 155. So almost 16 ft.

[00:15:48]>> And then with the tail that's missing, probably 16.

[00:15:51]>> Probably 16 or more. How much you think he weighs, Oscar?

[00:15:54]>> I'm going to say around 1,500 lb.

[00:15:56]>> Wa.

[00:15:58]I I mean >> that's a lot. I mean, lift his tail. You just lift the tail. I can't lift the tail.

[00:16:03]>> How much you just that part of the tail weighs?

[00:16:05]>> So heavy.

[00:16:07]>> Good boy.

[00:16:11]>> Absolutely massive. He's swallowed that thing like nothing. Just give you guys a little perspective of scale. I want you to check this out. Look at the size of his foot compared to my hand. How insane is that? And if I back up to wear his hand. Oh my.

[00:16:24]>> Oh my god. You're right. Yeah. The heel to heel. It doesn't even reach the toes.

[00:16:28]>> That's a true Godzilla right there.

[00:16:30]How's Lyle?

[00:16:31]>> Absolutely mammoth creature. It's crazy cuz you see him.

[00:16:34]>> Have you ever seen a Nile crocodile that big?

[00:16:36]>> I don't think I've ever seen a crocodile that big. You see him swimming around the water in here all the time. So much different up close. I mean, even the scoots and stuff that are on the back of his leg are this big. It's crazy.

[00:16:46]>> All right, so Oscar's going to give him his last piece of meat. That's his reward for sitting still while we did the measuring behind you, Oscar.

[00:16:52]>> Sorry.

[00:16:53]>> That's ambush.

[00:16:54]>> Little ambush.

[00:16:57]>> How is that one scarier than that one?

[00:16:59]That's the craziest part. And I am terrified of that little tiny one, but that not at all.

[00:17:05]>> So, I hope you enjoyed this video. Make sure that you share it with your friends. Do us a favor. CHECK THAT LIKE BUTTON. THOSE NOTIFICATIONS ON. AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Tell your friends to thanks for coming and helping us, Jay.

[00:17:18]>> Oh, no problem. Bye.

[00:17:19]>> We love you. Bye.