Indian Gharial

The Indian gharial is a critically endangered species and one of the longest of all living crocodiles. They are characterized by its extremely long, thin jaws, regarded as an adaptation to its predominantly fish diet.

 

Males reach up to 6 m (20 ft) and weighs an average of around 160 kg (350 lb). Gharial are also dark or light olive with dark cross-bands and speckling on the head, body, and tail. Their dorsal surfaces become dark, almost gray-black, at about 20 years of age. Their elongated, narrow snout is lined by 110 sharp inter-digitated teeth, and becomes proportionally shorter and thicker as they ages.

Food: adults eats fish and small crustaceans while the young thrives on insects, tadpoles, small fish and frogs

Habitat: 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 though their distribution is now limited to 2% of their former range.

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