Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
🤔 Okay, this is a new one for me! And quite frankly, I have absolutely no idea what Bray-den Stump was up to here! 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️. Up until then he’d been doing the usual croc stuff , basking on the bank, having a little mouth-open thermoregulation session, generally looking like he had absolutely nowhere else to be. Nothing unusual.
Then he entered the water and started doing this. 👀 I couldn’t see any food around him or anything obvious in his mouth. He didn’t appear to be feeding, and I couldn’t see him picking anything up from the bottom and filtering mud out .
Instead, he seemed to deliberately push his snout underwater, then squeeze the water back out around the sides of his mouth. And he repeated it several times the same behaviour.
Mrs Mo was basking well away from him, he was not facing her , I don’t think this was directed at her as a communication display?
So what was Bray-den doing?
Feeding behaviour? Cleaning his mouth? Sensory investigation? Some sort of manipulation of water? Communication? Or something I haven’t even thought of?
Bray-den stump got me stumped. 🤷♂️
If anyone has seen this behaviour in crocodilians before , I’d genuinely love to hear your theories and, even better, any scientific references you can point me towards.
Because sometimes the best part of watching wildlife is realising you still have plenty to learn. 🐊. Life long learning.
#crocodile
#croc
#wildcrocodile
🤔 Okay, this is a new one for me! And quite frankly, I have absolutely no idea what Bray-den Stump was up to here! 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️. Up until then he’d been doing the usual croc stuff , basking on the bank, having a little mouth-open thermoregulation session, generally looking like he had absolutely nowhere else to be. Nothing unusual.
Then he entered the water and started doing this. 👀 I couldn’t see any food around him or anything obvious in his mouth. He didn’t appear to be feeding, and I couldn’t see him picking anything up from the bottom and filtering mud out .
Instead, he seemed to deliberately push his snout underwater, then squeeze the water back out around the sides of his mouth. And he repeated it several times the same behaviour.
Mrs Mo was basking well away from him, he was not facing her , I don’t think this was directed at her as a communication display?
So what was Bray-den doing?
Feeding behaviour? Cleaning his mouth? Sensory investigation? Some sort of manipulation of water? Communication? Or something I haven’t even thought of?
Bray-den stump got me stumped. 🤷♂️
If anyone has seen this behaviour in crocodilians before , I’d genuinely love to hear your theories and, even better, any scientific references you can point me towards.
Because sometimes the best part of watching wildlife is realising you still have plenty to learn. 🐊. Life long learning.
#crocodile
#croc
#wildcrocodile
