Animal sightings are not unusual in Singapore at all, and most people may see an otter and just walk by. But a crocodile is another story, as one TikToker found out.
Set to a background of a rather dramatic foreground music, @khaijer posted a 30-second video of an unmoving croc in a concrete canal at Choa Chu Kang on Monday (May 16).
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Estuarine crocodiles, sometimes referred to as salties as they live in saltwater, are found in the wild in Singapore, although once in a blue moon they make it to places inhabited by humans. Our crocs can grow up to 5 meters long and have long snouts, as well as broad, muscular and ridged tails.
In @khaijer’s TikTok, the salty is lying very still. This could be due to a few reasons. Crocodiles are ambush predators, and so they stay calm and wait for fish or other animals to come by, before attacking quickly.
Another reason is that they’re cold-blooded creatures, and need an external source of energy to get warmth, which is what the croc at the Choa Chu Kang canal may have been doing.
They can, however, become aggressive and turn dangerous when provoked, and passers-by would do well to leave them alone when they’re sighted in the wild.
Last month, another crocodile was filmed in the waters off Lim Chu Kang.
A TikToker who goes by @suttheburger on the platform first posted an eight-second video of the croc, nose shining in the sun, swimming determinedly along amid a backdrop of high-rise buildings in Malaysia that provide a stark contrast.
@suttheburger BESAR SIA PUK*M*K #fypシ #sgtiktok #crocodile #wildlife
A number of excited voices exclaiming at the sight of the creature can be heard.
On Facebook, the video was later shared on the Good for You Singapore page, where one netizen estimated that the croc is between three and four meters long. /TISG