DANGEROUS CROCODILES – TEN FACTS.
Yes, they are what I say they are.
DANGEROUS CROCODILES – DIRTY BEASTS.
DANGEROUS CROCODILES ARE:
CROCODILES ARE DIRTY
Dirty crocodiles? Does this mean they lie in the mud or perhaps some filthy leaves? Well, I am not talking about the lack of fresh clean water and soap to wash their dirty bodies.
No way Jose, says the big ugly smile on the croc dial!
Crocodiles have a terrible stinky breath. Ask anyone who got too close.
Of course, they cannot do anything to remove the stench of their god damn awful breath, even if the vile creatures wanted Colgates. You should try and avoid getting even a mere whiff. It is foul, but it is really dangerous, too.
Avoiding the smell reminds me of what I had to do with Keiran back in the army. Yes, the girls in my unit were appalled at the power of his underarm body odour. The selected and appointed me, don’t you just love them for their sheer audacity, to go to Keira and beg (or otherwise) him “PLEASE use some deodorant.” I did approach him, explaining that we were not an infantry unit, but he was offended, and although the plan worked Keiran and I were never friends. Looking on the plus side, however, he did as asked and regularly applied some deodorant. Soon, the stink was nothing but a bad memory and the girls were more than happy. I bet they remember me fondly. The man who fixed the smell.
Kathy, Diane, Maureen, I have the highest regard for you and I rather hope (some chance) that you read what I wrote today. I am keen to hear from you and especially hear that you do appreciate this sacrifice that I made to improve the quality of your day.
DANGEROUS CROCS AND THEIR TASTY MEAT.
I have eaten crocodile meat. Quite a few desperate and adventurous epicureans will chew on crocodile flesh. I do of course, wonder if these innovators would lap it up if they saw (and smelled) the body while it was being cut into choice croc bites. What if they smelled the air? If they smelt that rotten rank, foul and vile stench. The off-putting “Keiran-like” bad meat smell before it was hidden by the cooking process?
I have tried the pupae of the butterfly. The taste is OK but somehow the first crunch on that tiny body spills a warm, wet, slippery ooze into my mouth and I cannot but help think on what I am feasting on. Pleasure vanishes.
“Wo shenme dou chi.” In China, I am, like Chiang Kai Shek, known by many names. The above MANDARIN means “I eat everything.” I got the name because I made a decision to eat everything that I was given. So duck’s feet, duck’s tongue, duck’s this and that, and even duck’s blood. And a lot more.
But a real live stench is more than a stink, and it is quite possible that you will not creep up to enjoy, or otherwise, the croc’s foetid vapour.
If you do manage this, you might want to review my second point. We move away from merely foul, and we come to DANGEROUS CROCODILES – See section below. Later.
DANGEROUS CROCODILES – MUCH WORSE THAN A BAD SMELL.
What is more fearsome than the hot furnace-like wind bringing stinky, evil, breath, or even just a faint whiff from the belly of the monster’s smelly recesses gives more reason to take fright.
You likely know that the dangerous crocodiles smell so damn awful due to what they eat, how the eating is done, and in the end what happens to the garbage that they don’t throw out.
Let’s begin with the good old rubbish bin. The householder takes it out. Someone arrives and he, or she, removes the rubbish, hopefully long before the rotten smell starts to conquer the air around it. They take the bag of rotten this and that away. The good neighbours we are, well, we don’t see (or smell) that rubbish again. If it ever smells like crocodile’s breath that is not our concern.
But in respect to our very smelly and quite dangerous crocodile the rubbish goes into the mouth and the gut, but no-one will come and remove it. Well, I believe the croc will shit in the water, but that does not help much does it?
DANGEROUS CROCODILES – WHAT THEY EAT.
Because the croc has a tendency to devour living creatures, you should take care when you visit crocodile country.
But the crocodile is also an efficient scavenger, and he will eat dirty, Long-Dead things. He will happily munch on all kinds of deceased, slimy and maggoty things that are filthy, rotten, and vile. Unlike humans, the beast will merrily banquet on day-old bodies that smell far worse than a shit cart left too long in the hot sun. Those corpses will raise the ire of the heavens, but the croc doesn’t mind. He is as happy as a pig in the proverbial. Heck, it is so bloody easy as the rotten bodies fall to pieces when touched. This leads to easier and faster feasting.
While gorging on those leaky remnants the crocodile will enjoy the bonus of white, shiny maggots trying to beat him to the joy of the residual flesh. They call it the CIRCLE OF LIFE in Disneyland. But it is really more a circle of death.
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness” doesn’t get a mention out here. Give him a clean toothbrush, some soothing, spotless toothpaste, and a good scrub? This will not take you far. More likely to death’s silent station. But it would not work, anyway. The facts are that you have a lot more chance of putting out a housefire with a half-bucket of water.
DANGEROUS CROCODILES – Forget that idea.
We have discussed the filthy food going in, the horrible, ugly look of it, and even the little-known fact that the dirty, dangerous bugger doesn’t even use a toothbrush let alone deodorant.
CROCODILES – AND THEIR FULL BUCKETS OF BACTERIA.
The real issue is lots of bacteria. I am fairly certain that those open, gaping mouths hide the planet’s finest deposits of bacteria.
You may or may not know that crocodiles, unlike us poor and pasty humans (and other animals) are, it is said, immune to nature’s bounty in the form of one very nasty form of bacteria – melioidosis. This bacterium is deadly. You will, like crocodiles, find it in tropical soils. Deadly? It has caused several human deaths over the years.
We humans are quite susceptible to the melioidosis bacteria. Human blood cannot cope with it. Meaning our system is not very active against the bacteria. So the bloody stuff invades our poor, white blood cells and it multiplies and multiplies. Melioidosis is extremely dangerous.
Thus far it is clear that the crocodile is a dirty bastard and a sneaky bastard at that. He doesn’t throw the garbage out. He doesn’t use a toothbrush but then again, he is in front of us because he does not need a toothbrush. And why? Because he is unique in that his ever-so-special crocodile blood has the ability to do a fantastic job of inhibiting the growth of the bacteria.
Ask yourself. Speed? Power on land, or on the sea, and the clever beast even flies through the air with the greatest of ease. Underwater, like a submarine with big teeth (forgot to say unlike a submarine with torpedoes, the croc can replace lost teeth). Or on the surface like a guided missile destroyer. And I could go on………
MASS WEAPONS OF DESTRUCTION? Croczilla has the complete arsenal.
If you wish to know more and be entertained? I describe these weapons and their use in my novel, “The Sixth Season, Gudjewg.” Although it is about revenge and death, one man and one crocodile, it is also about the beauty of the Top End wilderness. Read it and discover that I knew quite a bit about “leaping crocs” many years ago.
Link to the book, “The Sixth Season, Gudjewg, about Arnhem Land, crocodiles, hunters, and the hunted.
LINK to LEIGHTON AND A HUNTER.
https://leightonclark.com.au/crocodile-hunter/
You might find out why Croczilla is so bloody dangerous when we finish with his mouth.
Read this and think, “While the initial trauma can prove fatal, as crocodiles have more than 60 teeth and their jaws have tremendous crushing power, many victims survive the attack only to succumb to vicious infections which can result in death or amputations.“
LINK http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/research/2016/09/27/the-painful-tooth-sampling-crocodilian-mouth-bacteria/
The crocodile is so dangerous because we are not being faced by a single enemy.
CHECK THIS.
These beasts are a dangerous breed.
Watch yourself.