Mighty crocodile on the Ken river!

Wow! Look at his teeth. My what large teeth you have, Mr. Magar much! All the better to eat you with, my dear... Wait, what's that slithering through the water? The ridge of a wild boar's spine, perhaps?

Crocodile in Panna National Park. The Ken Crocodile sanctuary includes the area around Raneh Falls along the Ken River. The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is a crocodilian of the family Gavialidae that is native to the Indian subcontinent and also called gavial and fish-eating crocodile. As the species has undergone both chronic long term and a rapid short-term declines it is listed as a Critically Endangered by IUCN. The gharial is one of three crocodilians native to India, apart from the mugger crocodile and the saltwater crocodile.

Gharials once thrived in all the major river systems of the Indian subcontinent, spanning the rivers of its northern part from the Indus River in Pakistan across the Gangetic floodplain to the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar. Today, they are extinct in the Indus River, in the Brahmaputra of Bhutan and Bangladesh and in the Irrawaddy River. Their distribution is now limited to only 2% of their former range.

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