Why didn't the croc climb onto the island?
This croc seemed particularly intelligent all it had to do was occupy the island and eat everyone.
shareI don't think crocs hunt on land, do they? Either way, crocs are more at home in the water. They are quite cumbersome on land. Even though it was aggressive, it's a risk to hunt a large group of large animals in an unfamiliar environment. Plus, if it was intelligent, it would know it wouldn't have long to wait before the tide came in.
shareBut this was an over the top croc, not bothered about tides and land and a few terrified humans.
If you were talking about an ordinary croc I'd agree with you.
I think they were going for some degree of realism though. For example, at the end, when we saw the croc in it's lair, it was incredibly slow over the land. It had to drag itself over the dry bits because it was so fat and cumbersome out of the water. That's realistic to me, and it's probably why they didn't want it sprinting over the island earlier in the film.
All the interesting facts about the crocs, and the info about how it's "territorial" seemed quite real to me too. I think the only over-the-topness was the size of it and how aggressive it was, but that's not totally impossible.
Well it was slow for dramatic effect but then fast in other scenes in the cave. Yes some realism but this was no ordinary croc, you might even want to speculate that it was some Dreamtime creature guardian of the Aboriginal sacred land.
Ah well whatever, it's a matter of how you perceive it. Salt water crocs do go for prey on land but obviously if it had attacked everyone on the island there would have been no story.
Crocs aren't that slow on land. They can run over 10mph. This film even had footwage of a croc running in mud, and it was certainly fast enough to catch a person. They don't hunt on land, but will attack.
shareActually, the most unbelievable aspect of the film was the croc's sustained energy. As cold-blooded reptiles, crocs are only active when their surroundings are quite warm (or they've been warmed by their surroundings), and even then they can't sustain intense activity for prolonged periods because lactic acid builds up in their bloodstream far more quickly than in mammals. The result is that the crocodile would have been virtually paralyzed after the first two or three attacks and would have needed considerable time to recover, which he probably couldn't fully do until after basking in the sun for a while. The croc in the movie was more like the battery bunny than an actual crocodilian.
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