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Show Last Week's Who The Crocodile Tha crocodile Is half flab, halt reptile and not a very pleasant fallow fal-low to deal with when' encountered encounter-ed In his native haunts. However In captivity h seems mild enough, and sleeps la the sua throughout ths summer seacoa and la winter burrows under the sand. Very few people know th difference dif-ference between a crooodll and sn ' alligator. It' th latter that Uvea In the southern part ot America along tha warm, sandy coasts and on the banks of sluggish slug-gish river. The alligator 1 milder mild-er than tha crooodll and hot likely like-ly to do anyone harm ualeea they come on him unexpectedly or get , Into his particular pooL Tha average length of the crocodile croco-dile I 15 feet sad he haa both powerful Jaw and a powerful tall. , One swtp ot hla flall-IIke tall and A small boat la crushed like aa egg-ehsil. and once the victim I la "the water, tha crocodile has him at a terrible disadvantage. - I Tha mother crocodile lay ecr in th aand. about U U i asst. and from these egg, which are as large as woo ,aio oy a grose. are batched the small crocodiles. At first they have a dangerous time of It: different fish and turtles tur-tles gobble them up. and even their father will eat tbera whenever when-ever he can. But when -they grew up they need fear few of their neighbors. Slnggish as these ugly crocodiles croco-diles are. they are tricky and cans move with tha qnlcknesa of lightning light-ning when in tb water. When caught out on the land they will play possum, but onoa they get ' away they are gone .Ilka a flash. |