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Ioughttamow@kbin.run â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
kshade@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
I hate your whimper
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Way back in the day in middle America my parents got my Lil brother a pet baby cayman.
WellâŚit kept getting bigger. Then bigger. Then we got a book and figured out she was sold a bootleg alligator instead. Poor choices caused it to get released at a local pond. Childhood had a lot of bad choices in my family.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Drink her essence!
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fuuuuck I forgot about this
That movie scared me so much as a child, I loved it
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
The Netflix prequel series is great, but they cancelled it after the first season. Fuckers.
lledrtx@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Y u leave my boy Gharial out huh?
They are so cute too blog.wcs.org/photo/âŚ/Don-Boyer-10425-Gharial.jpg
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.
Anticorp@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm pretty sure the first one is a caimen and the second might or might not be a crocodile.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.
Landless2029@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Caiman looks the most like a dragon head. MmmâŚ
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
A great guide to extant archosaurs!
Zugyuk@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Isnât the first one an alligator, and the third a crocodile?
venoft@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
No, I also though so at first but a quick google confirms this is right.
If you look up âfreshwater crocodileâ youâll see he looks a lot like his mommy.
crawancon@lemm.ee â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
no?
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Actually yes. I think itâs written the wrong way because of the sublemmy?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
No. Alligators have a rounded snout and only upper teeth visible. The third one is the alligator
Aria@lemmygrad.ml â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Am I being stupid? Thatâs a caiman and two alligators, no? Crocodiles have forward eyes.
Cyberbatman@lemmings.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
According to my Spanish friend, 1st one is a cocodrilo 2nd is a cocodrilo 3rd is also a cocodrilo 4th is a monstruo
NielsBohron@lemmy.world â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fun fact about the etymology of âalligator:â When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them âel lagarto,â which literally translates to âthe lizard.â While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called âTHE lizard,â and after several mistranslations into other languages, âel lagartoâ morphed into âalligatorâ
Or at least thatâs what I read somewhere once.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
We still colloquially call them lagartos, regardless if its a crocodile or alligator.
hakase@lemm.ee â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
All of this is correct, except that itâs not a âmistranslationâ, itâs a borrowing. Boundaries between words and morphemes are commonly lost in borrowing, and borrowed sounds commonly undergo adaptation as well.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone â¨6⊠â¨months⊠ago
In the northern Territory of Australia we have no alligators. We are however famous for pur salt and fresh water crocodiles.
So whe.n Europens arrived and found this few massive rivers full of crocodiles they called them the West, South, and Aast alligator rivers.