10 Most Dangerous Crocodile Species In The World

10 Most Dangerous Crocodile Species In The World

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10 Most Dangerous Crocodile Species In The World
Crocodilians are the ultimate survivors. They’ve been around relatively unchanged for millions of years, and that’s because of a few things; one of which is that they are so dangerous, few creatures ever want to tangle with them. And that dangerous nature survives to this day, and those are the crocodilians that we will talk about in this video.
From an ancient crocodilian with a bump on its nose, to the most dangerous crocodilian of them all, here are the 10 most dangerous crocodilian species in the world.

Number 10. The False Gharial
The False gharial is a freshwater crocodilian native to Southeast Asia, mainly Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, and Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Borneo in Indonesia. Also called Malayan gharials, they are threatened with extinction throughout their range due to habitat loss. Also, the animal is hunted by humans for skin and meat, and the eggs are collected presumably because they make for one awesome omelet.
The way things are, humans are more dangerous to them than they are to us. And although they aren’t known to be highly aggressive, there have been a few cases of these crocodilians attacking a human, and at least three of them being confirmed.
In 2008, a 4-m female false gharial attacked and ate a fisherman in central Kalimantan; his remains were found in the gharial's stomach. This was the first verified fatal human attack by a false gharial. However, by 2012, at least two more verified fatal attacks on humans by false gharials had occurred indicating perhaps an increase of human-false gharial conflict possibly correlated to the decline of habitat, habitat quality, and natural prey numbers.

Number 9. The Cuban Crocodile
This specie of crocodilian is one of the most endangered in the world and can only be found in a few places in Cuba. They can grow up to 10 and a half feet long, and have short broad heads and a bony ridge behind the eyes.
They are equally at home on land and in water. They are excellent swimmers and are pretty good at walking and, get this, leaping. I don’t know about you but I have never seen a crocodile leap before, not that I want to close hand of course.
They are extremely aggressive and will attack, but despite that, Fidel Castro seemed to have developed a fondness for them and even kept some as pets. Two of them made their way to the Skanses Aquarium in Stoclholm, Sweden. Apparently, the two were Castro’s gifts to Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov back in the 70s. Shatalov was apparently smart enough to let the experts handel the dangerous creatures.
In any case, one of these crocs attacked a 70 year old man who was attending a crayfish party at the aquarium in 2019. The man was giving a speech when he somehow found his hand “on the wrong side of the glass”, according to the police.

Number 8. The Orinoco Crocodile
The Orinoco crocodile isn’t widely known today, and with good reason. Its population is very small and it can only be found in freshwater environments in Colombia and Venezuela, in particular the Orinoco River and its tributaries. These animals were hunted to near extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries due to the demand for crocodile leather. Nowadays pollution and collection of juvenile crocodiles for the live animal trade, in addition to hunting, have reduced the population of South America’s top reptilian predator to a mere 500 or so individuals.
During their heyday though, they were quite formidable. Back in the1800s, stories of orinoco crocs attacking and killing humans were commonplace in the area. However, the only well-documented recent attack, on a fisherman in 2009, was serious but not fatal.
They are extremely large, in fact, they are in fact the largest species of crocodilian and predator in the Americas. One particular male specimen which was shot back in the 1800s was a whopping 22 feet long. However, due to overhunting, you’ll be hard pressed to find one that large today.

Number 7. The Black Caiman
Being one of the biggest member of the crocodilians, black caimans can cause serious bodily harm, not only to their usual prey, but also to humans. The massive predator lives in the lakes, slow-flowing rivers, and seasonally flooded savannas of the Amazon basin and is often regarded as the biggest predator of the Amazon ecosystem and feeds on a variety of birds, reptiles, fish, and mammals. If the prey is too big to swallow whole, they simply tear our bite sized pieces of flesh and bone. In fact, it’s not uncommon for people to see one of these creatures lugging around a torn leg of some animal.