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I Anonymous 01/06/18(Sat)01:43:50 No.57280281 v >>57280360 >>57280368 >>57281228 >>57281477 >>57282017 >>57282044 >>57282656 >>57283122 >>57286533 >>57278958 (OP) As an Aussie who loves his diving and fishing as much as his tabletop there is only one animal that scares the s--- out of me. Snakes (taipans, tiger snakes, eastern browns) don't bother me, if you give them a wide berth they will run rather than confront. Sharks are opportunists who will seize a chance when presented so its a case of tough s--- and it's usually quick so again not bothered. Stone fish, Blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, cone shells, irukanji and sea snakes don't bother me, just be aware and avoid them you wont get stung. There is only one Aussie animal that bothers me. The animal that scares me is the Saltwater Crocodile. These f------ are smart and they want to eat you. They watch, I saw when I was fishing for Barramundi I was fishing out of a Aboriginal town called Nhulunbuy and whilst out fishing I found a length of river where Dingoes (Aussie Wild dogs) would drink. Now Dingoes are cautious animals, even with crocs, they spook easily and will ghost if they suspect something is wrong. Now Dingo mothers with pups are even more cautious. Now this dingo mother would always approach and pick a different spot each day and move the pups in to drink. She would chose a different spot each day. Now the spot was also a great fishing spot so we'd go there each day (I spent 3 weeks up there). Now the spot was the territory of a big croc (about 4.5 meters) and it started stalking the dingo mother and it's pups. It watched her for about a week, the spots she chose to drink, and obviously decided the perfect ambush spot. It then disappeared. We were more cautious when reeling in fish on that spot as a result. One day, about a week later, the mother came down to drink and the water erupted as the crocs grabbed the mother and disappeared under the water. The pups, distressed, wandered up and down the bank crying for there mother. The f------ croc came back and picked of the pups one by one. (cont) >>57280281 The croc wasn't satisfied with the one kill, and it had obviously planned in advance. The thing methodically stalked and killed 8 animals. It was chilling. The fact that after that the damn thing had done this it then started to watch us like it had the dingo sent shivers down my spine. The f------ thing was thinking of how to catch and kill us. After that we stopped going to that spot for a while and told the locals. Personally feel the f------ thing needs shooting as I've heard since that the f------ thing has jumped on the back of boats, snatched fish out of nets, and bumped boats. This behavior and the obvious intellingence and methodological approach by these animals is one thing that scares me having seen it in person (not forgetting the size of the things) Anonymous 01/06/18(Sat)06:37:18 No.57283122 v >>57284229 Gustave NatGeo.jpg (12 KB, 300x211) google yandex iqdb wait >>57280281 >>57280360 Big crocodilians in general are f------ terrifying - pic related as a prime example, an ancient (about 60-odd, but no- one's sure), massive (estimated to be 20ft long and weighing nearly a ton), nigh-bulletproof (has several bullet grazes) serial killer rumoured to have killed as many as 300 people, and pretty much too big to hunt regular croc prey - the last sighting was in 2015, allegedly dragging in a adult bull buffalo into the river. It's not really too much of a stretch to see why they were considered dragons and daemons in older times - having deadly teeth and strength, and tough armour is one thing, but that purely malevolent reptile intelligence is quite another Anonymous 01/06/18(Sat)11:41:10 No.57286533 v >>57280281 >>57280360 One of the most intimidating revelations of crocodilian intelligence was just how effective their memory is. They scored quite poorly on original memory tests because they don't really care, but with more modern tests in-environment, they have realised that crocodiles exceed most mammals in long-term memory. A saltwater crocodile may not be very smart, but they will remember their prey for at minimum twenty years. It is almost certainly more, but the longst-running examination was only twenty years old at its publication time. Anonymous 01/06/18(Sat)12:50:34 No.57287478 v >>57280360 I'm going to school as an arborist, but we've got a lot of conservation courses available, and I signed up for a course that would allow me to get the skills necessary to participate in population surveys for reptiles and amphibians in my province (I'm a Canadafag). The instructor was one of my teachers in my program, he teaches at our college but is a qualified herpetologist, got his doctorate I think, does a lot of work in costa Rica both with antivenom development with hospitals and sea turtle conservation. Anyway he has said.multiple times Crocodilians are the most intelligent reptiles and have the most complex behaviour and ability to learn and abstractualize, so your story is even scarier thinking about that. There's no mistaking that s---, that croc WAS planning s--- out

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