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.

She makes the most delicious food that's fresh from the herbs in the surrounding countryside.

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.

So the default position is just Believe all patterns are real All rustles in the grass are dangerous predators and not just the wind.

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.

Next, more harmful chemicals are sprayed on fruits and vegetables, like pesticides and herbicides, to kill weeds and bugs.

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

A diet rich in salads was promoted in England during the early Renaissance period by Giacomo Castelvetro in A Brief Account of the Fruits, Herbs, and Vegetables of Italy .

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.

Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.

1. Don t flick cigarettes out the car window while driving or on the ground near dried grass, paper or plants Many forest fires are started this way2.

And agriculture suddenly appeared to me not as an invention, not as a human technology, but as a co evolutionary development in which a group of very clever species, mostly edible grasses, had exploited us, figured out how to get us to basically deforest the world.

I want you to know that there are farms out there like Bill Keener in Sequatchie Cove Farm in Tennessee whose cows do eat grass and whose pigs do roll in the mud, just like I thought.

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.

Every part of the ecosystem in this place seems very healthy, from tiny, little animals like a nudibrank crawling over encrusting sponge or a leatherjacket that is a very important animal in this ecosystem because it grazes on the bottom and allows new life to take hold.