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	Crocodilians of Pakistan: Indian Gharial or Gavial
		The gharial is considered to be one of the most critically threatened of all crocodilians, becoming alarmingly close to extinction in the 1970s.
		Gharial are arguably the most thoroughly aquatic of the extant crocodilians, and adults apparently do not have the ability to walk in a semi-upright stance as other crocodilians do (Bustard and Singh 1978).
		Gharial are restricted to the northern part of the Indian subcontinent where they were found in four river systems: the Indus (Pakistan), the Ganges (India and Nepal), the Mahanadi (India) and the Brahmaputra (Bangladesh, India and Bhutan).
	www.wildlifeofpakistan.com /ReptilesofPakistan/gharial.htm (699 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Environment : Gharial on the brink
		Gharial protection could then afford to be minimal only; the dacoits made sure no outsiders trespassed.
		One of the first tasks of the Task Force was to assess the population trend of the gharial.
		Thirty years and a massive crocodile conservation exercise later, the gharial numbers are creeping down again to their lowest low in the early 1970s.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2006/10/08/stories/2006100800260700.htm (1382 words)

	The Gharial
		The gharial is considered to be one of the most critically threatened of all crocodilians, so in the 1970s full protection was granted in hope to help the species increases.
		The gharial is not suited for moving about on land, because there leg musculature is not suited to enable the reptile to raise its body off the ground.
		Gharial are found in northern India subcontinent, in Bangladesh where they are close to extinction, Bhutan were they are possibly extinct, Burma possibly extinct, Nepal and Pakistan close to being extinct, found within the river systems of Brahmaputra (India and Nepal).
	shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /~dm1/gharial.htm (511 words)

	Gharial (Gavial) - Gavialis gangeticus
		Gharials are one of the longest of the crocodilians, rivaling the Australian saltwater crocodile in length.
		Gharials are a pale olive to tan in colour, with dark blotches on the body and tail.
		The false gharial is in the subfamily Crocodylinae, and the two are not closely related.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/crocodile/gharial.html (798 words)

	Undermining the Son gharials: a report on the illegal sandmining in the Son gharial sanctuary
		Gharials are river dwelling crocodililans inhabiting deep pools at river junctions and bends, called "kunds" or "dahas", and the deep gorges in hilly country.
		Predation on gharials is largely in the nest and hatchling stages from nest predators such as rats, pigs, jackals and monitor lizards.
		In the Son-gharial sanctuary, the nesting grounds of the gharial and mugger are being destroyed by the sandmining activities.
	www.ee.duke.edu /~achandra/projects/sonmining.htm (2836 words)

	Status of Gharial and Mugger in Orissa
		The present status of gharial and mugger in Orissa and, in fact, all over the country, is not completely known because of lack of systematic coordination either at the national or state level during the last one decade.
		A 30km length of the river Mahanadi, encompassing the once famous habitat of gharial, the Satkoshia gorge and the adjoining forests on the northern and southern sides, were gazetted as the Satkoshia Gorge Sanctuary in May 1976, with a total area of 795.5sq.km.
		The narrow width of the river in the Satkoshia Gorge and the absence of mid-water islands worsen the situation for gharial.
	www.wii.gov.in /envis/crocodile/laks2.htm (1886 words)

	Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gharials spend much of the time lying just under the surface of the water, with only their eyes and nostrils exposed.
		Gharials sway their heads from side to side when hunting for prey, which is usually fish or sometimes frogs.
		In spite of its great size, the gharial is harmless and actually darts into water at the sight of man. There is no record of a gharial ever having killed a man. However, females guarding their nests should be treated as potentially dangerous and left alone.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/lizard/gharial.html (491 words)

	OneWorld Magazine - The Crocodile Files
		The gharial is a crocodile that got its name from his nose."Ghara" means pot in the Indian language which is what the thing on his nose looked like.
		The little monkey threw down his fruit, and said to the gharial, "These are the best rose apples in the world!" The gharial tried one and agreed, "they are wonderful!" The monkey and the gharial became good friends and the gharial visited every day.
		Still the lady gharial wished to taste the monkey's heart and finally, though he argued as much as he could, the gharial agreed to bring the monkey home to his wife.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /tales/crocs/gharial.html (665 words)

	Gharial Crocodiles - Terai Arc - WWF - Expeditions in Conservation
		Gharial crocodiles live in the calmer areas of deep, fast-moving rivers throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar, and are named for the bump located on the tip of the snout of the adult males.
		The gharial crocodile's diet consists primarily of fish, which they eat with the aid of thin, long jaws lined with rows of razor sharp teeth.
		The length and size of the snout reflects the age of the gharial crocodile.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/teraiarc/wl_crocs.html (359 words)

	The Reptipage: The Indian Gharial/Gavial _Gavialis gangeticus_
		There large size and the false belief that gharials were man eaters has caused the death of many a gharial and they are now highly endangered animals.
		With their equal sized needle sharp teeth all the gharial has to do is find it's prey and either snap it's jaws shut or swish it's head back and forth with it's jaws open just enough to spear the fish.
		Even thought gharials are awkward on land, a female guarding her nest is not to be messed with.
	reptilis.net /crocodylia/gavies/gavialidae.html (1122 words)

	Gharial
		Gharials, being the most aquatic of all crocodilians, are awkward out of water mainly due to their short stumpy legs.
		Gharials are found in Himalayan-fed river systems: Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra rivers, to the coast of Burma, Northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
		Gharials live in harems of 4 to 6 females to one male.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /gharial.htm (418 words)

	Gharials - Crocodilians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Gharial (Gavialis Gangeticus) is a large crocodilian that inhabits India, Burma, and Pakistan.
		Male gharials have a hollow bump on the end of their long snouts that may serve the purpose of amplifying their mating calls.
		The Indians thought that this bump resembled a gharial, or a pot, and that is how this species got its name.
	www.gatorland.com /fun/gharials.html (122 words)

	Gavial (Gharial) -- Pictures, Animal Facts, Habitats, Video, Sound, Wallpaper -- National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gharials, also called gavials, are easily distinguished from crocodiles by their long, thin, almost tubular snout filled with small, razor-sharp teeth.
		Gharials are among the largest of the crocodilians, with some males exceeding 20 feet (6 meters) in length.
		Gharials live in the major rivers and waterways of the northern Indian subcontinent.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /animals/reptiles/gavial.html (430 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : Illegal sand mining threatens Gharial sanctuary
		He had particularly emphasised that the survival of Gharial and other wildlife species that lay eggs in sand is greatly threatened by sand mining in the Protected Area.
		Kothari had told the House that on the one hand the State Government tries to curb the menace of illegal sand mining and on the other a large number of local residents, including labourers, traders and truck operators, continue to be involved in illegal mining activity.
		However, the Forest Department's Gharial breeding and releasing operation (which started at Devri in Morena district in 1981) helped in improving the situation and the number of Gharials rose to 1289 during the 1997-98 counting cycle.
	www.hindu.com /2006/10/15/stories/2006101511900500.htm (731 words)

	Gharial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is one of two surviving members of the family Gavialidae, a long-established group of crocodile-like reptiles with long, narrow jaws.
		In fact the only reasons the gharial leaves the water is either to bask in the sun or to nest on the sandbanks of the rivers.
		The gharial's structure is not conducive for it to be a maneater or to even launch an attack on a human on the river bank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gharial (1317 words)

	Crocodilian Species - Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The gharial is one of the largest of all crocodilian species according to several reports, approaching C.
		The gharial is poorly equipped for locomotion on land as an adult - the leg musculature is not suited to raise the body off the ground (to produce the 'high-walk' gait - being able only to push its body forward across the ground ('belly-sliding'), although it can do this with some speed when required.
		The decline in gharial populations have been linked to a decline in fish catches, as predatory fish (of no interest to the fishermen) form a major part of the crocodiles' diet.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/csp_ggan.htm (1210 words)

	Rainforest Realm:GHARIAL
		But they differ from their cousins the alligator and a crocodile because of the shape of their heads.
		Gharials mating season takes place between late winter and late spring.
		The life span of the Gharials is about 50 years, which is a long time.
	library.thinkquest.org /5087/GHARIAL.html (352 words)

	RAOnline Nepal: Royal Chitwan National Park >> Gharials
		The gharial is one of the largest of all crocodilian species, approaching C. porosus in maximum size - males reach at least 5 metres in length, and often approach 6 metres.
		With an aim to preserve the rare Gharial crocodile, the Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) have begun collecting the eggs from its natural habitat.
		Crocodiles are in danger due to various reasons like they are killed for skin, floods sweep away their eggs, lack of fish (their main food) in the rivers and the threat from their own bigger adults.
	www.mypage.bluewin.ch /raonline/pages/np/tour/np_gharial01.html (805 words)

	Looks like a Gharial but is it one.... on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		In fact, opinion is divided on whether it should be a crocodile or a gharial.
		It has a long, narrow snout like a Gharial but is actually a crocodile.
		My son and I though it was a gharial when we first saw the thumbnail and were speed viewing wildlife on flickr before bedtime.
	www.flickr.com /photos/pandiyan/30644003 (629 words)

	False gharial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The false gharial or Malayan gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) is a fresh-water reptile, resembling a crocodile with a very thin and elongated snout resembling that of the gharial, hence its name.
		The false gharial is native to six river systems in Sumatra and Malaysia.
		The False gharial is threatened with extinction throughout most of its range due to the drainage of its freshwater swamplands and clearance of surrounding rainforests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tomistoma (326 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 237
		A baby Gharial, considered globally one of the most critically endangered crocodilians, was captured from river Padma here early this month making wildlife biologists optimistic about its quiet breeding in Bangladesh.
		The Gharial existed for 2,000 million years and is classified in its own taxonomic subfamily, Gavialis (Hindi word ghariyal or crocodile) gangeticus (of the Ganges River), said Prof Altaf.
		A 102cm-long Gharial, a crocodilian species, believed to be less than a year old, was captured on January 1 in the Padma in Nagarghat.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/01/23/d40123011313.htm (408 words)

	The False Gharial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The False Gharial eats mainly fish but will also take shrimp, crabs, frogs, snakes and occasionally waterfowl or small mammals.
		The False Gharial's eggs are 10 cm long and 7.5 cm in diameter.
		The False Gharial lives in the southern part of the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Sarawak.
	smcdsb.on.ca /ffx/thread/Zoo/Gharial/false_gharial.htm (202 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Alligator & Crocodile
		All the species of alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and gharial together are known as “crocodilians.”; That is sometimes shortened to “crocs” and still refers to all the species as a group.
		Gharials and false gharials are specialists, though—with their slender snouts, all they can catch are fish.
		After the young have hatched, the mom carries them to the water in her mouth (except for gharials, which have mouths that are too narrow), then guards them for most of the first year of their lives.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-crocodile.html (1248 words)

	SIT: Gharial faces extinction \| Blog
		And sand pits are wreaking havoc for the gharials.
		Many of the farmers plant their cash crops in sandbanks and the gharials that come out from the Chambal waters have no space to lay their eggs.
		And when gharials get entangled in their fishing nets, the reptiles are killed by the fishermen.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/mine-trap-indian-gharial-going-going-almost-gone/top/32343-3.html (495 words)

	Gharial \| nepaleseForesters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gharial (Gavialis gageticus) is one of the two species of crocodiles found in Nepal.
		Gharial is found in Koshi, Narayeni, Karnali and Mahakali river systems of Nepal.
		Habit: Gharial crocodile occurs in the deep pools of big rivers in Terai region.
	www.forestrynepal.org /gharial (228 words)

	False Gharial :: Saint Louis Zoo
		Like all crocodilians, false gharials spend a lot of time in the water, and are well suited to a liquid lifestyle.
		In false gharials, the scales are colored dark brown, with some fl bands on the tail and body.
		Fish might be their favorite food, but false gharials like to broaden their menu from time to time.
	www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/reptiles/alligatorsandcrocodiles/falsegharial.htm (1027 words)

	Crocodilian Species - Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The needle-like teeth of the Indian gharial are perfect for seizing slippery fish, the prey upon which this species feeds almost exclusively.
		The narrow snout is particularly suited to being swept laterally through the water at great speed - the way in which the gharial feeds, snatching fish as they pass the submerged head.
		Once seized, however, the gharial lifts its head out of the water to reposition the prey for swallowing - which like other crocodilians cannot occur under water without flooding the oesophagus and trachea with water.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /cnhc/!ggan1.htm (100 words)

	Gatorland facts and information on Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is the only member of its family.
		Male gharials have a hollow structure on the ends of their long snouts which is probably used to amplify their mating calls.
		It may also help them in blowing bubbles in the water, which is another courtship behavior that helps persuade a female to mate.
	www.gatorland.com /fun/gharial.html (93 words)

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