Nile Crocodile

 

The Nile Crocodile is Africa’s largest crocodilian and can reach a maximum size of about 20 feet and weigh up to 1,650 pounds. Average sizes, though, are more in the range of 16 feet and 500 pounds.

They live throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the Nile Basin, and Madagascar in rivers, freshwater marshes, and mangrove swamps.

As with most of our tented camps we were located on waterholes or river banks. This image was taken from the front of our tent. The croc from the above images is the same croc.

The diet of the Nile Crocodile is mainly fish, but it will attack almost anything unfortunate enough to cross its path, including zebras, small hippos, porcupines, birds, and other crocodiles. It will also scavenge carrion, and can eat up to half its body weight at a feeding.