slender-snouted crocodile
mecistops cataphractus latin

African Slender-snouted Crocodile begin to breed in the rainy season.

Species include the Slender-snouted Crocodile on inland portions of the waterway.

It should be mentioned that presence of the slender-snouted crocodile, which is sometimes said to occur, is considered errounuous.

African Slender-snouted Crocodile are native to freshwater habitats in central and western Africa.

The Mecistops cataphractus (African slender-snouted crocodile) is also reported.

From there, visitors could see Slender-snouted Crocodiles or a behind-the-scenes glimps into the hippo's nite quarters.

The African Slender-snouted Crocodile (Crocodylus cataphractus) is a species of crocodile.

Slender-snouted crocodile (Crocodylus cataphractus)

Pygmy hippos, slender-snouted crocodiles, and many species of turtles and fish can be seen in a series of water/land exhibits all with underwater viewing areas.

Nearby are some ground birds, the kori bustard and secretary bird, leopard tortoises, a small house with slender-snouted crocodiles, and a hippo pool.

The slender-snouted crocodile lays an average of 16 (minimum 13, maximum 27) very large eggs (relative to body size) about a week after completion of the mound nest.

All three species of African crocodile, for instance, occur in the river: the Nile crocodile, the dwarf crocodile, and the slender-snouted crocodile.

Three crocodile species are found in the wild, Slender-snouted Crocodile, Nile crocodile, and Dwarf crocodile.

Animals in the park include bonobos, Salonga monkeys, Tshuapa red colobus, Congo Peafowl, forest elephants, and African slender-snouted crocodiles.

The snout is even slimmer than the snout of the Slender-snouted crocodile and comparably as slender as that of the gharial or the Freshwater crocodile.

Crocodylus cataphractus, slender-snouted crocodile (studies in DNA and morphology suggest this species may be more basal than Crocodylus, so belongs in its own genus, Mecistops).

Andrews distinguished "C." articeps from "C." megarhinus on the basis of its narrower snout, which is more similar to the Slender-snouted crocodile than the Nile crocodile.

There are three species of Crocodiles, the Nile Crocodile, the Slender-snouted Crocodile which lives in forest streams, Dwarf crocodile found in mangrove swamps.

Chimpanzee Forest: Chimpanzee, Colobus Monkey, Rock Hyrax, Coquerel's Sifaka, and Slender-snouted Crocodile.

Such a distribution greatly overlaps with that of the slender-snouted crocodile, encompassing countries as far West as Senegal, reaching the Central African Republic in the East, and ranging as southerly as Angola.

Three species of crocodiles reported are: Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistpos cataphractus), West African Dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) and West African Crocodylus suchus; the first two are on the endangered list.

However, the long, thin snout of Sarcosuchus was very similar to the thin snouts of the modern gharial, the false gharial and the slender-snouted crocodile, all of which are nearly exclusive fish-eaters and incapable of tackling large prey.

Bates's weaver (EN) Ploceus batesi is endemic to southern Cameroon and African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus is on, lizard and two species of crocodile one of which is the African slender-snouted crocodile Crocodylus cataphractus.

The Mecistops cataphractus (African slender-snouted crocodile) is also reported.