12.02.2014 10:03

Why crocodiles climb trees?

Composition expert scientists at the University of Tennessee Knoxville American was recently found an explanation of behavioral characteristics of crocodiles climb trees. 
Scientists found that the semiaquatic toothy predator tends to climb a tree in order to find more heat your body. Moreover, as scientists believe, crocodiles, are the trees are under the supreme control of the territory belonging to them, watching the warring animals and hunting down prey.

Chief Scientist at the University of Vladimir Dintsem to establish this fact, the research was conducted surveillance of these marine predators inhabiting though in different countries, including Australia, Africa and the USA. According to experts the direction of biological research, the main predators preference branches of small trees just above the water surface.

Surprising fact established again by scientists was that some predators climb a tree, having four-meter height. Another curious fact was obtained by scientists crocodiles escape from the trees back into the water when a man approaching them.