How do crocodiles spend the winter?

Crocodiles are a kind of reptiles, the oldest reptiles in the wild that lived with dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago, so how did crocodiles survive the winter?

I. the living habits of crocodiles

The crocodile is an advanced reptile that breathes through its lungs and divides its heart into four chambers. Crocodiles usually like to inhabit the beaches of lakes and swamps or the wet areas of Artemisia annua in hilly and mountain streams. Their favorite foods are: wild ducks, rabbits, frogs, mice, fish, snails and other animals.

Nile crocodiles have a habit of living symbiotically with thousands of birds. Birds often look for worms on crocodiles, and sometimes they can get into the mouth of crocodiles to peck and eat leeches parasitic in their mouths.

How do crocodiles spend the winter?

Crocodiles spend the winter by obtaining external heat sources and adjusting the temperature by their own systems. Wild crocodiles freeze themselves on the surface of the water in winter. Farmed crocodiles can achieve the purpose of winter by maintaining ambient temperature and giving enough food.

III. Species of crocodiles

Common species of crocodiles are:

1. Siamese alligator

Also known as Thai alligator, Siamese freshwater alligator, Singapore alligator, mainly distributed in Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia.

2. Chinese alligator

It is a kind of crocodile unique to China, and it is also the most endangered crocodile in the world. Yangzi crocodile is small, adult alligator weighs about 36 kilograms, body length is generally 1.5 meters, rarely more than 2.1 meters.

3. Mississippi alligator

Alias Mihe crocodile, American crocodile, only found in the southeastern United States and the Mississippi River Basin and other places, and hence the name.