Better look up when on your next visit to bayou...

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

WiReD: So, Turns Out Crocodiles Can Climb Trees (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/crocodiles-can-climb-trees/)
What's up? Crock! ;)
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2014/02/68530.jpg

EDIT:

Now I get it. I was sitting here reading your post yesterday, thinking: 'that is one odd post I am reading over here, hm.'
Took me a while to figure out your reasons. :juggle:

:ranger:Sorry, i've should put clearer description from the beginnig. Better later than never. So here it goes. The WiReD magazine article describes a scientific paper dealing with reports from around the world on crocodiles ability to climb trees. Seriously :nod:

[Orph]

That's a survival technique croc's learned after the big oil spill in the gulf a few years ago. They needed to get out of the water or die. Either that or it's just waiting for the tide to come back in again. :laugh:

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

That's a survival technique croc's learned after the big oil spill in the gulf a few years ago. They needed to get out of the water or die. Either that or it's just waiting for the tide to come back in again. :laugh:The report indicates sightings all around the world (where crocks can be stumbled on ofc) and also before the gulf oil spill. Also tides raise water surface at ~0.5 m (~1.8 ft) max. And the report tells of crocks seen at ~9m (30 ft) heights.

Compare a bear paw:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Bear_paw.jpg/220px-Bear_paw.jpg

With a crock paw:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/199496280_cd0c9b9d09.jpg
It surely can be of some help when climbing up the tree trunk.

Note: Not all crocks have such sharp and long claws, most have short, blunt or broken claws.
http://thesafariadvisor.com/linked/crocodile%20paw%20close%20up%20in%20mara.jpg
Maybe that is the reason you don't usually see crocks up there hanging from the tree ;)

Full report (PDF) here (http://www.herpetologynotes.seh-herpetology.org/Volume7_PDFs/Dinets_HerpetologyNotes_volume7_pages3-7.pdf).

[chocolate]

Now I get it. I was sitting here reading your post yesterday, thinking: 'that is one odd post I am reading over here, hm.'
Took me a while to figure out your reasons. :juggle:

:ranger: