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Crocodiles are able to climb trees, study reveals
Kate Seamons foxnews.com As far as discoveries go, this is a somewhat terrifying one, assuming one has a healthy respect for crocodiles on the ground: They can climb and perch in trees. And they can really climb, with researchers spotting them more than a dozen feet from the ground. While anecdotal reports have placed the reptiles in trees in Mississippi, Colombia, and along the Nile, only three references to such behavior appear in scientific literature. And so researchers set out to determine whether it was a regular practice, observing crocodilians (which includes crocs and alligators) on three continents: Australia, Africa, and North America. What they found, as reported in Herpetology Notes: Four species were identified as able to climb trees, and were spotted, in one case, as high as 13 feet above the ground—and as far as 16 feet down a branch. to read more: foxnews.com
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