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- krlgoesll, on 10/26/2009, -8/+61DAMN NATURE! you scary
- jmdwinter, on 10/26/2009, -0/+40Who's a good boy?!
- TyIzaeL, on 10/26/2009, -12/+49http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZwhNFOn4ik
- jasmus, on 10/26/2009, -0/+32Wut? Crocodiles can go about 12-14km/h over VERY short distances. The record is 17km/h set by a freshwater croc which is a smaller species. These things won't be chasing you down unless you were stand close enough for it to grab you anyway.
Crocs aren't "lazy". Their cold blooded, and expend no more energy than is needed.
Yes, I am sitting at my computer. If I walk 100m out of my office in any direction, I would be standing in a Crocodile enclosure. I work at a zoo. - jmdwinter, on 10/26/2009, -2/+27*"in a while, crocodile." ?!?
- aherman, on 10/26/2009, -0/+25From Wikipedia.
"Capable of explosive bursts of speed when launching an attack from the water, many species of crocodile are also capable of fast land-movement. Many crocodiles are capable of explosive charges that can carry them nearly as fast as a running human."
The average Digger would probably be unable to run away from a crocodile. - ScottMcIntyre, on 10/25/2009, -6/+27See you later, alligator. On the Nile, crocodile... I wouldn't like to get in the way of that speedy croc!
- dollar0dot02, on 10/26/2009, -1/+20I agree with Elton John. Crocodiles rock.
- Lunarparcel, on 10/26/2009, -1/+16I kept watching it for like 3 minutes, and I didn't see it move at all - or at least only really, really slowly.
- jasmus, on 10/26/2009, -2/+16Ok. Typically crocodiles aren't out on land just laying about. They're in the water, and not clear water either. The ridges on their back create currents and counter-currents so the surface of the water isn't disturbed while they swim through it. You can't see them coming. It a crocodile can launch it's body mass out of the water fast enough to catch nimble animals like gazel, or kangaroos, there's very little chance you'd be able to pull the trigger before you're dragged into the water.
Oh wait... I'm on Digg...
"LOL" - janinekahn, on 10/25/2009, -2/+14Holy crap, that guy is fast!
- Danby123, on 10/26/2009, -0/+10I nominate jnav for the worst comment of the year.
- ban1d0, on 10/26/2009, -0/+10You lose.
- jasmus, on 10/26/2009, -0/+9Ok, I see jnav121 is just trolling now.
- Kuci06, on 10/25/2009, -1/+10He looks happy :D
- Dinner, on 10/26/2009, -0/+7"To say that the Alligator has been perfected by evolution would be false, since evolution does not perfect an organism, but it changes the allele frequencies of its genotype."
...well, yes... with the end result of making it really, really great at hiding in shallow water and then tearing the ever-loving ***** out of just about any animal it comes across. Evolution makes it GREAT at that. Indeed, you might even engage in a bit of harmless hyperbole and say it is a 'perfect predator,' because it's so uniquely good at what it does.
Your comment is not an educated correction, it's just weirdly misplaced pedantry.
...It's also just wrong. Mutation is not 'a form of evolution'; it's one of the mechanisms that enables evolution. Something having mutated doesn't mean that it has 'evolved'. The other half of the basic equation is natural selection. I don't think it even really makes sense to talk about 'evolution taking place' until a mutation has spread to a significant portion of the gene pool. - thedaytripper, on 10/26/2009, -3/+9The additional comments in the title are misleading.
Evolution is in NO way a 'pathway to perfection.' Nor is there a specified 'goal' of evolution. We don't evolve to reach a certain endpoint. To say that the Alligator has been perfected by evolution would be false, since evolution does not perfect an organism, but it changes the allele frequencies of its genotype.
Also, sometimes evolution can actually be harmful. Mutation, which is a form of evolution, is almost always neutral...but it can be harmful to the organism. - heavyj1970, on 10/26/2009, -1/+7pwned
- mstrebe, on 10/26/2009, -2/+6"Perfected over the course of 240 million years". Wait just a goddamned second here. Are you really saying that 240 million years of evolution haven't perfected a few superior predators? That really the crocodile is predation perfected? Because I've got a lion, a tiger, a cougar, a jaguar, a couple dozen species of bear, an orca, a wolf, a hyena, my pit bull Beaudraux, and an H&K P2000 9mm who would take that crocodile apart without even considering the 240 million WASTED years of evolution. Jehosaphat my predecessors learned how to grow hair, subcutaneous fat, an enormous brain, and breast feed in that time period. Plus they invented the Mercedes Benz, oral sex, and navel piercing, just for laughs! And they invented laughs! Get a scoopful of skepticism before you write Digg titles for frack's sake you IDIOT [sic].
- hfactor, on 10/26/2009, -0/+4"Are you really saying that 240 million years of evolution haven't perfected a few superior predators?"
Actually, he said nothing like that, but nice rant. He said the nile crocodile is ONE of history's greatest predators and that it has been perfected by evolution, which says nothing about what else has been perfected by evolution. - fragMasterFlash, on 10/26/2009, -2/+6Looks like boot leather with an attitude.
- OmNomNomBACON, on 10/26/2009, -3/+7You could say they're in denial.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/25/2009, -0/+4Thanks for the nightmare fuel.
- thedaytripper, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3'form of evolution' was a poor choice of words, what I meant to say was that it was a mechanism of evolution.
I said that evolution doesn't create perfect organisms because if the alligator was perfect, it would imply that it had no faults. Sure, evolution has allowed the alligator to be really good at what it does (in a certain environment) but saying that it is perfect is false. That's all I was trying to say. - markw351, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2Nile Croc vs Saltwater Croc (SE Asia, Northern Australia)? Salties are supposedly more savage but either of them would rip your arm off in a heartbeat.
- marm0lade, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2Holy. *****. A civil disagreement with no flaming that I enjoyed reading. On DIGG! I dig you both up. Carry on.
- jasmus, on 10/26/2009, -7/+9Also, crocs are slow on land. You could easily outrun one.
- MacBandit, on 10/26/2009, -1/+3Fetch boy, fetch, good boy!
- sonofcali, on 10/26/2009, -2/+4Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater.
Interior crocodile, alligator. I drive a Chevrolet movie theater. - caffiendkitten, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2RUN AWAY!
- DecoyQ, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1www.instantrimshot.com
- shyguycasey, on 10/26/2009, -1/+2Why the hell is that crocodile galloping? Damn.
- tusharpant, on 10/26/2009, -1/+2holy *****..
- Catchpen, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1More: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/20 ...
- Dinner, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1Hehe. I was much less civil than usual, really... but I'm glad. It would be cool if there were more real conversations here.
@thedaytripper: Fair enough; I'd agree that he deserves a mild slap on the wrist for the insinuation that crocodiles might be 'done' evolving. (I just don't see how discussing allele frequencies figures into it!) - kcp12304, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1no...no its not
- DecoyQ, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1calling now..... oh that's right. :/
- AlyxVance, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1Damn nature, you hungry!
- Stassi, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1It is a demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!
- mamboboy, on 10/26/2009, -1/+2Dogodile.
- SAKevin, on 10/26/2009, -1/+2Quick, somebody call Steve Irwin!
- mm63, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1That's one badass crocodile!
- ban1d0, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1Evolution.
- plainOldFool, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1That's it. We're boned.
- AlyxVance, on 10/26/2009, -3/+3I like this one better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21KVqs25Wpw&NR= ... - IKORKYI, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1i've always been terrified of flying sharks...this is pretty close
- Alias1431, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1So who else started to sing along?
- jnav121, on 10/26/2009, -2/+1tell him he is a bad mr. kitty
- cyrix, on 10/26/2009, -2/+1It's so stupid it's brilliant.
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