But we don't consider the alligator very intelligent, not like in a human sort of way.

The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain.

For example, you know, in New Orleans we have Cajun Chinese food, where they serve Sichuan alligator and sweet and sour crawfish, right?

And I would go and pack a little bag and I would wait for Mr. Alligator to come.

And huge things I mean, this is a lower jaw just laying there in the desert of this enormous crocodile.

Now, Mr. Alligator never did come, but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity and made it OK for me to keep going because I believed, in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.

Filipinos also followed the story of Lolong and their online conversations made the giant crocodile a trending topic on the internet.

Narrator If they can just land it, this croc will provide useful data, helping Paul in his quest to understand Sarcosuchus.

A giant crocodile in southern Philippines and crocodiles in the flooded waters of Thailand and Cambodia were among the top news topics in Southeast Asia in the last quarter of the year.

They see discussing energy security with Russia as akin to chatting about water safety with Comrade Crocodile.

And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator, and I would call him up when things got really bad, and I would say it was time to come and pick me up.

Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'

Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

The park contains the biggest chunk of virgin cerrado habitat left on Earth, with tapirs, red brocket deer, silvery marmosets, and pumas living amid twenty waterfalls crashing off the Huanchaca Mesa into forests. The park s waterways contain one tenth of the world s remaining 1,000 giant river otters, along with black and speckled caiman, pink river dolphins, and capybaras.

Named Lolong, the giant crocodile was captured in Agusan del Sur province in southern Philippines and transferred to Bunawan Eco Park and Research Center drawing more than 500 people a day.

And it came down to something called gout, which, as a result of kidney breakdown is actually uric acid crystals throughout the body, and worse in the joints, which made the gharial unable to swim.