For us living in China, many animals are basically only seen on television or in zoos, but if you come to Australia, you will suddenly find that there are so many animals here, right next to you, and you, Its existence cannot be ignored.
The most representative is the Australian saltwater crocodile!
The Australian saltwater alligator (: Crocodylus porosus), also known as the river alligator, bay alligator) is the largest reptile known to exist on earth. Adult Australian saltwater avocado can be up to 4-7 meters long, up to 8 meters long, weighing 400-1, 600 kilograms. They are ferocious and powerful and are good swimmers. Australian saltwater alligators have a wide range of predators, preying on fish, amphibians, reptiles, and large mammals, sometimes attacking and preying on humans. Their main branch is in northern Australia, where crocodiles are reported near residents' homes.
In northern Australia, where saltwater crocodiles were once close to extinction, years of conservation measures have brought the number of saltwater crocodiles here to more than 100,000, in an effort to protect the safety of locals. Residents of northern Australia have begun killing the crocodiles.
Local government also strongly encourages residents to kill crocodiles, and specifies the size of crocodile hunting. Every hunter must have a hunting permit, and video must be taken when killing crocodiles. Because it's the only way the government can tell if the hunter killed the crocodile as required. Kill a 4-meter-long crocodile, the skin can sell 10, 000 dollars, crocodile skull can sell 3000 (about 18,000 yuan).
A large number of saltwater alligators have also led the local tourism industry.
At present, there are five places to watch saltwater alligators in Australia:
1. Darwin's cage of death.
The northern part of the territory is the king of crocodiles on earth: the best place for saltwater crocodiles. Darwin, the northernmost city of mainland, Australia, is also the capital of the Northern Territory.
The Death Cage is Darwin's very famous project for interacting with crocodiles, located in a private crocodile theme park in the Darwin CBD. The principle of the activity is to use a crane to drop a plexiglass tank containing one or two tourists, and then put the transparent tank into the pool of the giant crocodile. At this time, the tank is also injected into the water in the crocodile pool to experience swimming with the giant crocodile. I feel that the world is currently in this place.
2, Adelaide River crocodile jump
This is a very long-standing and well-known activity in the Darwin area of the Northern Territory, where artificial feeding of crocodiles is performed in a wild environment. The key is not the usual feeding, but the hyperbole of flirting with crocodiles to get more than half of their bodies out of the water. It is precisely because of this kind of interference in the natural ecology that many environmental and animal protection groups have been protest, and have been forced to shut down for a few years. If you are interested in this activity, go quickly. I do not know when this will be closed and no longer able to watch.
3. Sunset cruise at Mary River National Park
Mary River National Park (Mary River National Park), located between Darwin and Kakadu National Park, is second only to Kakadu in the mouth area of the Northern Territory, where wildlife, especially carnivores, is viewed in the wild. The best time is early morning or dusk, not to mention the beautiful sunrise and sunset in the marsh.
Mary River became a national park not because of the beauty of nature, but because of its colorful life. With the exception of crocodiles, birds of all colors are the absolute blossoms in swamps during the two hours of cruising.
This activity is mainly about watching crocodiles in the natural state from a long distance on board, so take your long-focal camera and set out.
4. Kaka Du National Park Aircraft Parade
Kakadu National Park, Australia's largest, the world's second largest national park, belongs to the world's natural and cultural heritage. The most numerous signs in the park are: cherish your life, keep at least five meters away from any waters, prohibit swimming in any unknown waters, etc.
The whole Kakadu has almost no signal, except for the only human gathering point, Jabiru;, where there is a very special crocodile hotel, and the whole hotel is a crocodile model.
In Kakadu National Park, the crocodile was found to have chosen an aircraft cruise. You can fly, watch the whole animal gather in the most natural place, at different angles, look at the real side of these animals, I believe it will be enough to shock you.
5, Sunrise Cruise in the Yellow Water Tam Wetland
Located in the center of Kakadu National Park, Huang Shui Tan Wetland (Yellow Water) is a well-developed wetland cruising by boat. Huang Shui Tan is so wonderful that compared with the previous Mary River, the water area of Huang Shui Tan is several times larger. And you don't want to see saltwater crocodiles in the yellow pool until the end of the day, because of the cold and warm weather, most crocodiles lie on shore during sunset cruises, and almost all crocodiles are in the water during sunrise cruises.
Author: drifting and drifting
