Very notice-able by its strange skinny snout,the gharial is a big crocodilian that spends a lot of
its time on earth in water. Compared to other crocodilians, its legs
are unusally not strong, and its feet are very webbed. Gharials eat mostly fish,
though, they also eat waterbirds.
During the mating season, the male becomes stronger territorial, and gathers females . The female digs
a nest well away from the water's borderline, and lays up to a half of one-hundred eggs, which weigh about a little more than
a quarter of
a pound each eggs are srangely big. The female protects her babies, but doesn't put them to the water-maybe because of
her weird shaped jaw. They almost vanquished in the 1970s because they lost their environment, hunting, and fishing,
although a domestic mating program is slowly helping it bring up the gharial population.
