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 | | Unlike the noticeably blunt-snouted American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), the only crocodilian indigenous to Mississippi, the snout of Crocodylus niloticus is more pointed, with a larger number of teeth conspicuously protruding from the mouth when closed (Neill, 1971; Ross and Magnusson, 1989; Branch, 1993, 1998). |
 | | niloticus remains the extensive, detailed study by Cott (1961); however, other contributions and summaries can be found in Neill (1971), Guggisberg (1972), Pooley and Gans (1976), Graham (1990), Allen (1998), Branch (1998), and a variety of studies compiled in Webb et al. |
 | | Crocodylus niloticus is an omnicarnivorous, primarily aquatic, predator that eats fish, turtles and other reptiles, small and large mammals (including zebra and buffalo), birds, carrion, invertebrates and any other animal it can overpower, swallow whole or rip apart, and ingest (Roosevelt, 1909; Cansdale, 1955; Cott, 1961; Grenard, 1991; Branch, 1993, 1998; Lamar, 1997). |
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