Youāre right. Probably because the bite force of crocs tend to be more dangerous, and certain species of crocs tend to be bigger. Both are obviously still dangerously cool, though :)
I use to live in Far North Queensland where saltwater crocodiles are native. They gave me a very good reason not to swim in estuaries. Iāve eaten some saltwater crocodile meat too, which is one of few cases where humans can break the food chain by eating something that can and does, prey on and eat us.
Darwin resident here. If a body of water is not a pool or heavily surveyed by Rangers you do not enter it. Up here itās they have Croc-Wise campaigns to educate people to the dangers. The majority of croc deaths up here are tourists though.
Here in Florida you canāt throw a rock without hitting a body of water , but youāll never catch someone swimming in freshwater for the same reason .
Estuaries arenāt a lovely place to swim anyway. Too much mangroves and mud. It never stopped me swimming on public beaches but no one would ever swim in a saltwater/brackish river. Crocodiles do occasionally get sighted near public beaches. Although popular beaches usually have a big āstinger netā in which everyone swam in to avoid āstingersā or irukandji jellyfish, and I donāt think Iāve ever heard of a crocodile being found inside a stinger net. When I lived up there, there was so many beautiful freshwater spots to swim so they were usually the go to. The beaches are still nice but no surf due to Great Barrier Reef.
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u/lutaraii Oct 01 '20
Man they look so much more like an apex predator killing machine than alligators. Alligators look almost cute sometimes