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• Cyberbatman@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact about the etymology of “alligator:” When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them “el lagarto,” which literally translates to “the lizard.” While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called “THE lizard,” and after several mistranslations into other languages, “el lagarto” morphed into “alligator”

    Or at least that’s what I read somewhere once.

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    • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We still colloquially call them lagartos, regardless if its a crocodile or alligator.

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    • hakase@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All of this is correct, except that it’s not a “mistranslation”, it’s a borrowing. Boundaries between words and morphemes are commonly lost in borrowing, and borrowed sounds commonly undergo adaptation as well.

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    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• Ioughttamow@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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  • HopingForBetter@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please? Please? Please, please!?

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gelfling essence!

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  • kshade@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate your whimper

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way back in the day in middle America my parents got my Lil brother a pet baby cayman.

  Well…it 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.

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• thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Drink her essence!

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuuuuck I forgot about this

    That movie scared me so much as a child, I loved it

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Netflix prequel series is great, but they cancelled it after the first season. Fuckers.

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• lledrtx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Y u leave my boy Gharial out huh?

  They are so cute too blog.wcs.org/photo/…/Don-Boyer-10425-Gharial.jpg

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• Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.

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• Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure the first one is a caimen and the second might or might not be a crocodile.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.

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• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Caiman looks the most like a dragon head. Mmm…

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A great guide to extant archosaurs!

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• Zugyuk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t the first one an alligator, and the third a crocodile?

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  • venoft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, I also though so at first but a quick google confirms this is right.

    If you look up ‘freshwater crocodile’ you’ll see he looks a lot like his mommy.

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    no?

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually yes. I think it’s written the wrong way because of the sublemmy?

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. Alligators have a rounded snout and only upper teeth visible. The third one is the alligator

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• Aria@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Am I being stupid? That’s a caiman and two alligators, no? Crocodiles have forward eyes.

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