• Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    In french we say “c’est caïman la même chose” (a very approximate word play between “quasiment” (almost) and “caïman” (caiman)

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Left is Alligator, Right is Crocodile.

    The trick is that Alligators have A shaped Angular snouts and Crocodiles have C shaped snouts, except that’s actually wrong and it’s literally backwards.

  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
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    Crocs are usually more pointy looking and angular than gators. Crocs are also much more dangerous.

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      I assure you, alligators are PLENTY dangerous. Although their testicles ARE notoriously ticklish. Go ahead. Try it.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        Nah, they’re just big scaly alley cats.

        I kayaked in a swamp full of alligators for a week. I would not do the same in a swamp full of crocodiles.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    HahahhahahahahahahahahHHahHHahHHahHahhaHahahHahahahhhHAHhHahHHahHHhahahahaahHhhH

    Seriously though, this meme reads like a chain letter sent in the 90s

    Also no gharial

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      Gee, I don’t know, DominusOfMegadeus. Maybe deep down, you’re afraid of any Apex Predator that lived through the KT Extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it’s the perfect killing machine: a half ton of cold-blooded fury with the bite force of twenty-thousand newtons and a stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves. And now we’re surrounded, those snake eyes are watching from the shadows waiting for the night…

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        Crocodilians (which include all croc like animals) are not quite cold blooded. Their hearts keep oxygenated and carbonated blood mostly separate, affording them the lower metabolism of cold blooded animals and the speed of warm blooded ones.

        Their carbonated blood also takes a your through the stomach before going to the lungs. You see, the higher the carbonation, the lower the pH, and having that source of H+ ions next to their tummy is paramount for them to manufacture their highly acidic gastric juice.

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    And the alligator is the one next to the crocodile, so this sounds more like a similarity than a difference

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    Hey peeps! Easy way to tell! The Alligator has their mouth shaped like an A and the Crocodile has their mouth shaped as a C! Can’t go wrong with that!

    Edit: And also there’s the cayman or as we like to call it, the 'kay man. You can tell because they’re usually toasted.

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        Yep, it is reversed

        Crocodile teeth don’t show, Gators have teeth visible when their mouth is closed, that was the trick I learned as a kid

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          If I’m close enough to tell this, the last thing I’m probably worried about is if it’s an alligator or a crocodile

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        Ikr. It was probably a bunch of dads making jokes when naming them.