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Hunting and Diet:

In the Hunting and Diet section, (3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence onwards) the article reads:

Large crocodiles, even the oldest males, do not ignore small species, especially those without developed escape abilities, when the opportunity arises. On the other hand, sub-adult saltwater crocodiles weighing only 8.7 to 15.8 kg (19+1⁄4 to 34+3⁄4 lb) (and measuring 1.36 to 1.79 m (4 ft 6 in to 5 ft 10 in)) have been recorded killing and eating goats weighing 50 to 92% of their own body mass in Orissa, India, and so are capable of attacking large prey from an early age. It was found that the diet of specimens in juvenile to subadult range, since they feed on any animals up to their own size practically no matter how small, was more diverse than that of adults, which often ignored all prey below a certain size limit.

This needs an edit. Amongst other things, the first and last lines contradict each other. Do Large Crocodiles ignore small species or not? I don't know the answer to this question but wanted to highlight it. The section also just generally doesn't read very smoothly, it keeps jumping between talking about very small and very large prey. E.g. what is: "since they feed on any animals up to their own size practically no matter how small" meant to mean? Is the word "small" referring to the size of the crocodile or the prey? Either way it could do with a re-write. 131.215.220.164 (talk) 17:51, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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This phrase sounds wrong:

In northern Australia, Western Australia, and Queensland, the saltwater crocodile is thriving

Australia's northern regions include northern WA, northern QLD, and the Top End of the Northern Territory, but if you didn't know better, you might read this sentence as meaning "northern Australia, and not-as-northern areas of WA and QLD". Please change it to:

In northern Australia, the saltwater crocodile is thriving

Thank you. 123.51.107.94 (talk) 00:32, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done That seems pretty spot-on - the northern parts of WA, QLD, and NT are meant. Simplified as suggested. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:03, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The distribution map is terribly outdated and inaccurate

For one, saltwater crocodiles are extinct in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Secondly, this map would not even be correct from a historic standpoint, since it does not include coastal southern China. Cporosus1 (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"However, Wells and Wellington's assertion that the Australian saltwater crocodiles may be distinctive enough from northern Asian saltwater crocodiles..."

"Northern Asian saltwater crocodiles..." Drsruli (talk) 15:51, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inaccurate prey items

The last sentence of the introduction says that saltwater crocodiles eat "hippopotamuses and humans". This is completely wrong, as humans absolutely shouldn't be considered a normal prey item for them, and hippopotamuses live half a world away.

Nile crocodiles (also occasional man-eaters) do live in the same place as hippos, but do not predate on them. This kind of error strikes me as indicative of the use of text generation software (commonly incorrectly labeled "AI"). If "AI" has been used to write any part of this article, then none of the information in the article can be safely considered true. 2601:47:4880:4B50:B7E8:6EC2:F7BA:8911 (talk) 20:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, that shouldn't be there, and I have removed it. I'm too lazy to dredge through the article history to check when it was added, but I doubt it was anything but a drive-by addition at some point. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:53, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]