Common Name: Nile Crocodile
Scientific name: Crocodylus niloticus
Hausa Name: KADA
Size: over 20ft long.
Weight: over 900kg
Habitat: Large fresh water, lakes, swamps, and rivers, plus coastal estuaries and mangrove swamps.
Feeding Habit: Carnivores, it feed chiefly on larger fishes, but will ambush antelopes, buffalos, zebras, and domestic animals coming to drink water.
Breeding: Mating occurs in water. While laying of eggs occurs outside water, where the female dig a hole in a ground with her hind legs, lays 16 – 90 hard shelled eggs, and covers them with sand, then fasts for about 90 days while depending the egg site. When she hears peeping, she opens the nest and gathers the young into her mouth. She washes them in the river, and they then remain in a group for several months.
Lifespan: 22 Years in captivity
Conservation Status: Critically endangered (CR)
Group name: Bask on land and Float in water.
