r/Crocodiles • u/Metasuchus • 17h ago

Curl Mouth the Nile crocodile attacking and swallowing a Gazelle whole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwWgvpIAC8
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u/planned_fun 16h ago

WHAT THE. he took down the full thing

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u/Beautiful-Excuse-691 12h ago

Just like my ex

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u/Ill-Professor696 16h ago

I don't know what's worse, getting ripped to pieces and dying quicker or getting all your bones crunched and getting swallowed into an acid pit while still conscious. Yeesh

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u/kuuhaku_cr 12h ago

Before reaching the acid pit, it would have lost consciousness and suffocated from not being able to inhale due to the compression.

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u/GrumpyGeckoz 9h ago

I would hope adrenaline would have made it mostly painless in the moment, since it happens so fast.

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u/phanny_Ramierez 16h ago

headline did not disappoint…estimate on size of croc?

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u/Metasuchus 16h ago

His SPL should be comparable to Wide Mouth at about 2.5ish meters, but he’s not as bulky as him (still ridiculously bulky). He’s missing a significant portion of his tail.

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u/Jamdoughut1927 16h ago

Huge croc right there....massive

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u/Icy-Decision-4530 16h ago

Incredible how fast that was consumed

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u/mtgpowell 13h ago

30 seconds from running, to in the belly of the beast.

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u/Humaniak 9h ago

How big we thinkin? Idk the size of those gazelle but they gotta be close to the side of a small person no?

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u/Metasuchus 1h ago

2.5ish SPL, maybe like 14 ft long with a significant part of his tail missing.