The heavens flash in galvanised brilliance as a hulking torso slips from the murk, lifts a lipless snout and bellows.
This electrical storm is a pure, unadulterated aphrodisiac for the crocodile, but the sex frenzy that ensues is a bland romp compared to the all-out bacchanalia that follows a later visit from a low-flying Chinook helicopter.
The Singapore Air Force is involved in a military agreement that allows it to operate Chinook helicopters in central Queensland.
“They’re probably using it as a bit of a cue to say, ‘Hey the wet’s coming’ … and it’s a good time to start mating so the eggs are ready to be laid at just the right time,” Dr Baker says.
Dr Baker suggests male crocodiles might mistake the sound of a helicopter for a competing bull, and rush to ensure their seed takes root before this fictive lothario acts upon its lascivious intentions.
Headlines coming out of NT have always been the best.
Whomever wrote this article is a wordsmith
A wordsmith who clearly needs to get laid.
Why do you think they’re investigating crocodile mating cues?
“Hey babe, up for some chinooky tonight? Yes! Well let’s get to the choppa!”
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You could go classy and call it “50 Scales of Grey”.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
This electrical storm is a pure, unadulterated aphrodisiac for the crocodile, but the sex frenzy that ensues is a bland romp compared to the all-out bacchanalia that follows a later visit from a low-flying Chinook helicopter.
The deed itself is not a particularly romantic procedure, with the bull clutching the female underwater to align their cloacae – the cavities into which their respective intestinal, urinary and genital tracts all open – and activating the latter organ.
It’s an irresistible love potion painted across the wide blue yonder – but there’s something even more carnally stimulating than the flash and crack of a furious electrical discharge.
Dr Cameron Baker is a Charles Darwin University researcher who specialises in the ecology, behaviour and social structure of the estuarine crocodile.
Dr Baker suggests male crocodiles might mistake the sound of a helicopter for a competing bull, and rush to ensure their seed takes root before this fictive lothario acts upon its lascivious intentions.
The agreement is expected to result in up to 14,000 Singapore armed forces personnel conducting unilateral training in the region for up to 18 weeks a year over a quarter of a century.
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Cool chicks, hot mamas Whatever the case, the central Queensland croc rancher is anticipating a bumper crop. The farm produces about 2,000 eggs per year, of which at least 1,200 hatchlings emerge — and it’s the incubation temperature that determines their sex. “You get females hatching out at 34 degrees and females hatching out at 29 degrees, so you get hot girls and cold girls,” Mr Lever says. “And it’s not the hot girls you want — it’s the cool chicks. “They’re the ones where their DNA is still intact, and they will be the same as their mothers [in terms of heightened breeding ability].”
