Crocodiles struggling to find a way to eat molasses

With extremely tough skin, badger is still a difficult prey for the Nile crocodile in Kruger Park even after death.

The photographer Sheila Grobbelaar caught her molasses when she went on safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa earlier this year, according to Earth Touch News. At first, Grobbelaar noticed that the crocodile struggled at the shallow water and thought it had just caught a large catfish.

Crocodiles snuggle tightly on honey.(Photo: Sheila Grobbelaar).

Usually, crocodiles satisfy hunger with fish, birds, toads and anything they can easily find underwater. However, they certainly did not ignore the larger, reckless prey approaching the water's edge. When the crocodile raised, Grobbelaar clearly saw its prey in its teeth."I was horrified to see crocodiles started throwing a badger of molasses. I really liked badger species, so the scene was not pleasant at all," Grobbelaar said.

The crocodile found a way to toss its body in the water.(Photo: Sheila Grobbelaar).

Grobbelaar spends an hour watching and photographing crocodiles as it tosses bile from side to side in an attempt to tear the prey into smaller, easier to chew. When Grobbelaar returned to the lagoon about half an hour later, the crocodile had left the water and crawled along the river with a maze.

Maybe crocodiles to spend a meal to eat scavengers because the corpse seems to be fresh. But even so, this is still a difficult meal to swallow."I doubt the reason crocodiles lose so much food with mummies is because it is difficult to tear the corpse into small pieces," explained crocodile expert Dr. Xander Combrink. Crocodiles cannot chew food so they are forced to split meat before swallowing and use stomach acid to digest meals.

After a failed attempt to tear up, it continued to wrestle with the corpse on the shore.(Photo: Sheila Grobbelaar).

According to Dr. Combrink, badger is famous for his tough skin. The weight of the badger is killed too lightly to create enough resistance to help the crocodile tear the bait by throwing it on the water.