I've uploaded my first youtube video and its one of my dad and brother-in-law off the coast of my home town fishing in a very small boat when they get some visitors... YouTube - Extreme Whale Watching I'd be freaked out...
Woah, that was amazing. However, I must say I don't believe they were Australians, spiky. I didn't here a single "strewth" and neither of them seem to be called Bruce.
He'd take offence at that and to prove you wrong he'd travel the 2000kms needed just to find a crocodile to wrestle. This is not something I'm going to encourage unless you get your dad to wrestle a crocodile too Ba... My efforts to send the video viral don't seem to be working yet. I'm trying to get more hits than the killer whale jumping on the kayak video, so I've got a measly 175,000 views to go.
Very cool. Something like that happened to a friend of mine while fishing off the coast of Washington.
Viral takes a little time, spiky and that video of the kayak had a head start... give it time, and try posting the link on myspace... :biggrin:
Ba's father doesn't claim to be Australian. As an American, he would simply shoot the crocodile with a gun (selected so as to have sufficient penetration to kill the beast).
Why just go for sufficient? He may as well go for overkill and use an RPG instead. Besides if Americans expect Australians to wrestle crocodiles they should expect to see Americans do it too. This is blatant discrimination in the crocodile wrestling department and something should be written into the basic human rights as outlined by the UN... something like 'it is not only Australians that are expected to wrestle crocodiles'. Kat I'm not on myspace and it seems like a lot of effort to set up... you know all those questions basically trying to find out if I'm a paedophile or not
Spiky, Americans don't wrestle crocodiles. We are much too sophisticated for that. We wrestle alligators. One may say that there is not a lint of difference between the two to amount to a hill of beans, but I beg to differ. A crocodile is to an alligator as a highschool drop out is to a lawyer. The crocodile hit its peak a long time ago and decided to stay but, but the alligator continued evolving, be it ever so slowly and even then to not a great extent, and has turned itself into the Einstein of the reptile world. Take a brief look into the lifestyles of the two. The croc goes around scavenging all day and is still hungry when it beds down for the night. It has to take down mean ornery animals that don't want to be eaten and it often gets seriously mangled in the process. Sure they get big and are extremely cranky, but hey who wouldn't be after a day like that. The alligator, on the other hand, just sits and waits for unsuspecting kids to play in the gutter or swamp and then has a pleasant, tasty, juicy, and tender meal while it looks for the next one. Or it is adopted by a chicken farmer that has to get rid of several tons of chicken a year and having the alligator is the most efficient and easiest way to do it (these chickens are handled very delicately by only the most well trained chicken specialists). The crocodile has not brought anything to the attention of scientists whereas the alligator instinctively knows how cold fusion works, but scientists haven't been able to crack the code they used (this is how the alligators have survived in areas that scientists didn't think possible for them to live because it was so cold). So for a decision between wrestling a dumb old crocodile and wrestling an intelligent creature like the alligator *chess is generally acknowledged as their favorite form of wrestling and then after that is Greko Roman wrestling*, then I would have to say hands down that I would go for the croc as the easier of the two opponents. So tell your da that if he wants to do some serious reptile wrestling, he needs to get in the ring with the king. The GATOR-ATE'R.
All the same, Ba does not live in Florida or in the New York sewers, so where would he get an alligator from ?
Hell Ba's dad probably lives closer to alligators than my dad does to crocodiles. He lives in the south the crocs are in the north and there is a very big whack of very empty space in the middle. Red your paltry efforts to talk up the intelligence of alligators over crocs is laughable. ha ha ha.
Spiky, your rebuttal has much to be desired. I used scientific proof in showing how much better alligators are to crocs, but you just use name calling and weak replies. If the difference is so laughable, then please tell me how so that I may know and therefore be a much more enlightened and intelligent person. Until then, alligators are the undisputed champions of reptile intelligence and crocs are just that. A crock.
whoa nelly! going back to this thread's original topic... :shock: holy blue bananas! what an experience. i don't think there's much more i can say about that. wow.
Ha I don't have to come up with pitiful misinformed speculations I just have to go to wikipedia: Intelligence Head of a Crocodylus porosus Dr. Adam Britton, a researcher with Big Gecko, has been studying crocodilian intelligence. In so doing, he has composed a collection of Australian saltwater crocodile calls, and associated them with behaviors. His position is that, while crocodilian brains are much smaller than those of mammals (as low as 0.05% in the saltwater crocodile), they are capable of learning hard tasks with very little conditioning. He also infers that the crocodile calls hint at a deeper language ability than currently accepted. He suggests that saltwater crocodiles are smart, clever animals that can possibly learn faster than lab rats. Saltwater Crocodile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And Ba my dad is not hiding from the crocodiles it can't be hiding when all you've got between you and certain death is geography.
2,000 kilometers worth of geography sounds like hiding to Ba. And that research is sadly lacking insofar as it's being conducted in Australia, where the deficient crocodilians live. If they really wanted to learn about reptilian intelligence, they should have conducted their research in the US.
Hear, hear. I cannot add anything to what Ba has just said, so I will retire from this debate. May my god have mercy on your soul. (You might want to burn a small pastry to please him.)
Great video - beter than some of the wildlife programs with 'super cool' presenters. However those two were pretty cool to stay out as long. Me - I would have hightailed it out of there - those fish are just to big to paw about!
My father is not hiding from the crocs. He's hiding from idiots like this And I just wish to add that the US isn't the centre of the universe there is a whole world outside of the US that is just as legitimate, interesting and worthy of research as that which goes on within your own small borders. I know this goes against the grain of everything that you've ever been taught, such as world history, Christopher Columbus, the Boston tea party to 9/11, but the animal kingdom doesn't care that you think you're the only country on earth they'll live where they damn well please and strangelt most of them don't live in the US...
Of course there are animals outside of these borders. Naturally, not every animal could be good enough to be American native fauna. Some couldn't make the cut, like those foolish little crocodiles of Spiky's.
who are you calling little, buddy? Unless Ba has suddenly become 6 metres long (or whatever antiquated measuring system you happen to be using) you should be more respecful of animals that are bigger than you are and that can eat you all in one go.
That video is incredible, Spiky! I'd have been absolutely terrified, especially every time one of them moved under the boat.
A crocodile would not dare. Even crocodiles are not so foolish as to attempt to eat Ba. Their primitive brains are still powerful enough to recognize the threat.
Yep. Crocs are born with instincts, as the salmon returns all the way to the place where it was spawned to procreate, so the humble Croc is born knowing one thing. Do not bite the Man with the 'Tache.
In better news this clip is going to go on national TV next friday (30th November). Dad and Steve are going to be famous!!! Even if they didn't say strewth or wrestle a croc.
