gigantikok: (Please don't skip over this because it is long.)
Wow. Ok, I should just stop responding to this thread, but I am too stubborn by nature to give up.
First off I'll say that your tendencies to sarcastically distort the facts in an argument to support your viewpoints is really starting to piss me off, Tender. You don't know what you are talking about, you don't know anything about crocodiles.
Unlike Tender and Jerkin, who continue to talk out their asses, I actually did SOME RESEARCH. Interesting concept, eh? Interesting actually getting FACTS to support your arguments. I know it sounds crazy but bare with me and check out my FACTS:
"Similarly to sharks, crocs tend to attack for reasons of defense of their territory or themselves, or by accident - as human flesh is not their preferred choice. Some, however, will do it simply out of aggression, most likely the Estaurine.
If a croc attacks you, you are most likely to be held in its vice-like jaw whilst it spins over and over disorientating the victim until death occurs by drowning or blood loss. This process is known as the death roll."(
http://www.gapmap.co.uk/Stay Healthy/Animals/Animals.html)
NOTICE how this article, and almost any other info I've pulled up on Crocodiles, specifies that they only attack for defensive reasons and that they do not prefer the taste of human flesh i.e. BABIES. They bite, they don't swallow. Steve Irwin knows this, you don't. And although it says that SOME will do it simply out of aggression, Steve Irwin knows every single croc in his zoo and has handled them personally. He has the ability to control the situation because of the knowledge HE HAS.
I went to another web site. It may be vague, but it is at least factually supported:
"What kinds of dangerous or poisonous animals live there (Australia) and about how many people per year get killed by them?
Katrina L., age 10, North Dakota
(I cut down the full answer for space issues)
There are crocodiles in northern Australia. They are very dangerous. One or two people a year get killed by crocodiles."
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http://www.scholastic.com/olympicgames/penpals/qa.htm)
So, not only have we learned, class, that crocodiles tend to attack defensively and do not like the taste of human flesh; we have also learned that deaths per crocodile a year in Australia are minuscule at best. This points to the conclusion that most crocodiles are not very aggressive, do not hunt for human flesh and babies, and do not kill many people a year.
And Steve Irwin knows a bizillion more things about crocodiles then you do.
And just because I am not a parent doesn't mean I can't have an opinion. You can't control people, Jerkin, you can force them to handle their children in any certain way.
*whew* Done.
