Are CROCODILES On The LOOSE In The UK??
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- ► Are CROCODILES On The LOOSE In The UK?? There have been sightings of Crocodiles on the loose in the UK so I investigate those sightings to see if there's any chance they are real!
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#UKCrocodile
Fishing in the 80s on the river ribble on a red hot day, a fly fisherman(said he was a doctor) said we were in his spot and walked further up the bank angry,10 minutes later up to his thighs in the river he fell backwards ,he came walking back and said he stood on a log under the water he said it felt solid and when he put both feet onto it it swam away he said he felt the power of it and he didn't know what it was,,we just laughed at him,but a few weeks later i heard on the radio that the police caught a 6 foot crocodile basking on the M55 hard shoulder, I've not been able to find anything related to this anywhere, but it was definitely on the radio .
The thing I find funny with this story is that anywhere else in the world where crocodiles are if you stood on a 6ft croc it's going to bite you yet in the UK it just swam off apparently.... Do me a favour 🤣
Could a crocodile survive in England? Herpetologists say yes: Dr Ian Stephen, a reptile and amphibian expert, said crocodiles and alligators could survive in British waters, pointing out that alligators can live through cold US winters.
They can live here
I've seen a croc in a river in southwest England
@@Budgiearmy Did it still have the heel strap?
@@baldieman64 no
Alligators and crocodiles are way different, alligators can survive cold winters crocs can’t why do you think crocodiles don’t live all through out Europe buddy
Alligators can and do Survive the cold, if you look up online you can see photos and videos of alligators sticking up they’re noses through ice in the winter so that the can still breathe while they’re body remains under the ice
Crocodiles are not alligators though
@@davidwilliams7552 How many people in the UK can the tell the difference between a half submerged crocodile and half submerged alligator?
@@raccoontrashpanda1467 alligators are quite cold tolerant. Crocodiles are not. Also alligators are much smaller and rarely a threat whereas crocodiles will actively hunt humans.
Food is the issue here tho, there’s not jungle areas in the uk where there’s animals all over for them to eat
Alligators do survive in a dormant state in snow conditions
Crocodiles would survive during the summer months here, if it could find food (most likely someone’s pet). Alligators on the other hand, they could survive in the winter months as they have been seen surviving in colder areas than over here. But again the food situation would more than likely be there detriment.
Agree. Deer though are rife as are sheep and cattle. Sheep aren't terribly well looked after because they seem intent on killing themselves. If your numbers drop by 1 or 2 per month you will assume it escaped or was taken by something but you won't investigate overly.
We have a lot of small animall, rabbits, badgers, deer there is plenty of food
some of those crocodile sitings can actually be misidentified large monitor lizards since they look similar from a distance and they can both swim in a similar way
Know you ain’t doing it anymore but I enjoyed all the big cat videos that’s what introduced me to your channel. Keep up the good work mate you’re a natural at presenting and your videos are always entertaining
I've toyed with the idea of doing a longer form documentary type thing but generally I just can't be bothered with it, it's plagued with absolute idiots haha - thank you though man! I really appreciate it
I hate these people who use these fake crocodile toys and troll us into thinking it's real and then disappoint us.
Terrapins survive. Big cats are real. There’s one in Rochester I’ve seen it
Terrapins a bit different like, Big Cats aren't in the UK
@@WildlifeWithCookie do you believe big cats are not in the uk?
We have big cat reports in NZ too. Yes we have them. They are quite literally BIG cats. I was charged by one once.
My local area has quite a few Maine Coon strays for some reason. When these mate with the feral cats in the bush round here the cats produced get surprisingly big. I had a brindle coloured feral one on my v.rural property that had me thinking a medium sized pit bull was sizing up a young calf. When it charged at me I jumped over it and it made a beeline for the swing gate. I saw then the unmistakable musculature of a very ripped, very large feral cat.
About 1 and a 1/2 x the length or a bit more and 3 to 4 times the mass of a usual domestic I would say. Big enough to be intimidating. Lean, rather than furry like the full Maine Coons. I suspect all the NZ reports and almost all the UK reports of black ' panthers' etc are similar v.large ferals, although Scottish wild cat reintroductions or smuggled bigger cats might make their way into the UK at times? Only Bengal cats are found in NZ. Not the tigers. Zoos excepted.
I was told two local pig hunters actually encountered a feral cat that fought off BOTH their dogs. Pig dogs being fierce AF and usually capable of holding down a wild boar for the hunter to stick with his blade. Not a pleasant sound when you hear it being done. I've seen wild boars a few times come out of the bush onto the paddocks. When this happens they tend to intimidate the cattle.
@@rickh3714 these are puma/leopard size. I thought I was going mad. Was afraid to say anything. But others have seen the same in the area too
@@truthfactreality6814
I'm in no position to adjudicate madness. I think everyone sees something in their lives that might lead others (who haven't seen the same thing/things) to believe so. However was there any object in the vicinity you could contextualize the size of the animal? Was there any detectable behaviour pattern? Has there been a reasonably recent history of an exotic wild life/ big cat park in the area? Local (wealthy?) eccentric who had a private zoo or menagerie?
I once was in a pub when an old Maori man turned up with a very striking looking 'dog'. Pretty much pure white. He told it to sit outside and it did. He told me and others in the pub it was an Arctic wolf. I didn't quite believe it as it wasn't in the slightest bit scary and was very well behaved and friendly enough looking. It did howl like a wolf though.
A year or two later when access to the internet became available I saw pictures of arctic wolves. From memory I thought it was possible that in that remote pub I had in fact at least seen something very closely resembling, or possibly even an actual Arctic wolf.
My best guess for a most reasonable explanation was that a 19th century personage like Governor Grey or Baron De Thierry had a private menagerie and some of the stock had found it's way into a remote settlement. Perhaps some full blood wolves had bred over the years with more wolf like dog varieties? Sufficient for a regular small population of near half-wolf stock to perpetuate as apparent 'Arctic wolves". With the wolf like appearance traits dominating over the domestic dog attributes in all areas except good behaviour?
Speculation, but I know weirder things have happened. The 'dog' wasn't you usual Samoy/husky or Malamute or German shepherd.
Hopefully trail cameras will determine the truth with some of the big cat reports. I did see the programme about leopards possibly being in England as released captives.
The quality of your content is improving exponentially pal. You’ve really found your niche with the nature and animal stuff. Good things are coming.
Ah man thank you so much! I'm feeling good with it right now and hopefully it can continue
@@WildlifeWithCookie just gotta turn up every day man. It will happen. You’ve 100% got it in you.
He is doing good, but needs to pay attention to detail a little better. I don't know about the U.K but in the U.S.A logs don't float up stream. lmfao
@@WildlifeWithCookie Hello cookie just to let you know that there are turtles living wild in the UK, go to Taylor Park Lake in St Helens on a hot day, go to the brick overflow and watch the sand bags they like to bask there. They are pets that have been released, over 20 years ago.
There were reports of a croc in a river in Cambridgeshire some years ago.
The middle aged mum comment was insulting, as if all of them are jus thickos sitting watching Jeremy Kyle all day. But the rest of the video was really good.
Love your videos Cookie........ still fascinated by the big cats though!
What if the Yorkshire two where released 'pets' and are now in danger themselves? I'm sure I heard when the water gets too cold they can go into a state of brumation though they rarely have to, if ever, because they don't naturally live in places where it can freeze. Maybe that's just alligators or Caimens but if they can do it, surely Crocs can. Those prehistoric buggers survived an Iceage after all
that's an alligator crocodiles for v-shaped snout alligators have a u-shaped snout
0:44 cameo from your boy
Nice!
Crocs, Aligators and snapper turtles.. ive seen all of these in Severn Trent Water Works from reservoirs to Sewage Treatment I also have videos of Sturgeon in Birmingham fresh water reservoirs as recently as 2015.. they are very much in the Canal system
Alligators can survive freezing temperatures.
"Crocodiles cannot be in the UK!"
UK Crocodile: "Hold me chip butty and me brew."
They are though spotted in Scarborough tbus week
There's a green parrot colony in the park opposite my house lol not many people even know they're there because they live in the really high trees and blend in. I think they are escaped ones that dont cause a threat to native birds, so they're left to just chill out lol
Parakeets you mean?
The one real situation wasn't a crocodile at all it was a caiman! They are not the same animals
Haha, that's not a crocodile. It's a Komodo dragon
There's a crocodile in the Skegness zoo I visited five years ago and I'll never go back there because people threw coins at it to make it move and staff didn't give a toss. It really upset me.
Yeah that's proper bad, hate hearing stuff like that - one of the problems with Zoos for me
@@WildlifeWithCookie and me! It's a privilege to get to see animals anywhere. Appreciation is not a difficult concept is it?
Absolute w*nkers
Fucking scumbags I would not be able to stop myself from going for the pieces of turd
If a crocodilian was living wild in the uk for any amount of time, the only real possible candidate would be a Chinese Alligator as these do Hibernate and can with stand cooler temperatures!! The bigger problem is abandoned freshwater turtles like snapping turtles and red eared sliders (terrapins)
It's not too cold for an alligator though. If you knew the range of temps and habitats they are found in you'd know that most of the southern UK is actually well within its hardiness.
In Bristol anything is possible. Plus I’m from near Brentwood uk and if you ever heard the big cat stories from this way I know the real gossip on that 👀
In México are a lot of crocodiles
You could also do a piece on the small population of Eagle Owls that IS in the UK
There's a pub in Krakow called the Ulica Krokodyli Pub & Cafe named after an escaped crocodile which was found in the local river.
I live in Ireland, and I remember Wally
HAHAH OMG, I just love your humor, this is whats made you Cookie,,, Never change,, xx Epic as always
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Haha cheers mate! really appreciate it
A croc has been seen in the north sea
To Cold for Krokodile. Next
I believe there are some crocodillians in a few select waters in the UK.
But this is most likely due to people keeping them as pets (illegally or legally), realizing they got too big, and then dumping em into the waters.
Yes, people do keep crocodillians as pets, more so than big cats, but still quite rare.
They can survive in the summer, possibly the winter but usually they die during the winter, and obviously breeding is just impossible.
Edit : ah yeah you spoke about that at the end of the video
Yeah pretty much summed it up!
Crocs will die here in winter as they don’t hide in water the alligators will hide under water even if there’s ice on the water so they will survive and thrive
Cookie, how about I watched your wild times episode couple weeks ago and during my search through UA-cam today to see if anyone has pet gators in the uk… well I found this and instantly remembered that face and jumper lol
The Bigfoot is in the UK
Imagine if they were in the UK tho🤣 suddenly the Chihuahua eating seagulls will become crocs🤣
Be absolute carnage wouldn’t it 😂😂
Never say Never, with Global Climate Change, UK inland waterways and coastal waters, could some day become an environment.
Where either Seawater Crocodiles, or Alligators, even Great White Sharks, or Sea Snakes too. Could all actually live and breed, but the question would be how would they get to the UK in the first place.
That is from their natural habitats in Africa, South and Central American, the Asia and the Far East.
Or from the South Pacific, or even from the Southern States of North America, thousands of miles swimming distance away?
Even if wild animals black marketers and smugglers, transports some of these to the UK for private wild animals and birds or reptiles collectors.
They still got to be released or escaped, in high numbers and find each other as well, to start and form a breeding colony in the wild and inland waterways in the UK.
One or two non-native wild animals or reptiles, or even birds and/or insects too. That may escape in different parts of the UK, could no way form a breeding colony too!
Heads up there are a lot of victorian sewers that have outlets into the avon at bristol, plus around the feeder witch goes through the docks that aren't used any more, nice and warm lol, with plenty of rats for food so if we have scorpions and false widows" just saying.
No chance!
A very interesting excellent video. Crocs and alligators can survive the cold, but not decades of permanent misery where a heat wave is one a day in ten years over 22C before it returns to 15C. Apparently we are currently suffering a heatwave, it's 11C at night etc? They wouldn't survive. Even when we get a proper heat wave, water temps in rivers are 6C or 7C max, they wouldn't survive. But I still love these stories. The poor creatures that are released are easy to catch because they are torpid below 15C.
that first footage of crocodile looked more like a UFO flying on a cloudy day instead
Great video... Crocodiles or the world is down the road from me.a good day out and very interesting. You defo pulled me in with the video caption 👍
Class! I didn't know it was a thing until making this video lol!
Never underestimate a croc. They've got to be adaptable to have survived so long and they learn quickly.
One thing they cannot change is that they are cold blooded.
If there’s crocodiles surviving in the UK, there should be crocodiles everywhere here in Brisbane, Queensland. Well…there’s not. It’s too cold for them here and Brisbane is a hell of a lot warmer than the UK
A few pet shops over the years have burned down that had small caimen and crocs escape. so it's not to crazy to think that some could adapt and survive in a colder climate .
Yh but I’d suppose they’d die instantly, the weather here is too cold and majority of the time it’s cold. Plus they may not be able to find food here too
I know theres a crocodile conservation and breeding place in Oxford, where they have over 100 crocodiles, some alligators, snakes, lizards etc. People also have illegal "pets" they can no longer manage, and add them to the sewerage system. I'm in two minds.
I used to work nights as a nurse, walked home one morning, and stopped at the red traffic light.........while walking!? So I can understand how that nurse believed it lol!
I just watch a narrow boat video on the Avon River in Tewksbury and they had crocodile safety sign then showed a crocodile with an open mouth. I didn’t know they had them and was confused and starting looking this up. I guess it’s a fake?
The Narrowboat Experience’s worst game of narrow boat chicken video.
We found a 9 foot alligator in the forest by my house in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 2014 at dig watering hole. A stream that ran into River... The police and wildlife officials took our phones and made us sign NDA
I saw one at the harborside
This guy is wrong because a small croc in perfect condition was finally found in bristol so crocs in the uk do exist
Ive seen wild Caracal's up close and personal in England and i believe we have the smaller eastern European lynx here to but CROCODILES 😂😂send it🚀
Alligators and crocodiles are not going anywhere near Europe unless they’re somebody’s illegal pets! 😂😂
I am from Bristol and there is a bloke with a pet crocodile and he walks it on a lead up the high street! I think there's a Bristol post article about it.
Don't know bout the UK but they're residents of the Mulgrave river that's just 2km from where I'm sitting as i type this.
pets turn loose after the owner can't keep the animal anymore thins is what happens when people buy a pet like that without doing any research on it. it happens in America all the time Burmese pythons let loose in the wild because they're too big for there owner to keep then the owner says "I didn't know they could get that big" do your research then similar happened to a woman with a tiger she said "I didn't know it would get that big" after she said she had seen adults in the zoo
I've seen a wolaby in neath I thought it was a dog but it hoped away. I've been told that they escaped from penscuner zoo many years ago
The crocodiles and Gators in UK will evolve to eat Fish and Chips tho
I know someone who owns one illegally in west Yorkshire UK and they think its a baby and not aggressive 🐊
Lol give her the benefit of the doubt so she went to sleep without thinking oh next door has a child maybe I should give them a knock quick tell them I spotted a crocodile in there garden lol
Do you guys think this could become a problem in the UK with climate change?
Alligators could maybe at a push survive here. Not crocodiles though.
Geezer. The second "log" was moving like a crocodile. Wasn't it?!
You know the crocodile's camo is effective when you got 2 ppl mistaking a log for a croc
Can a cold blooded creature that doesn't hibernate survive in the UK it gets fecking cold here.
If crocodile can adapt with the climate of UK, it will become the biggest in the world!
New report from Yorkshire coast family of crocs please check out the vid !!!
If you play in slow motion from 2 minutes 41 you can see it slithering like a crocodile, sticks cant to the if its that thick aswell
Don't be so angry when ya talking.. It would be much easier to listen too
Had me giggling and a bit sad. Here in the USA there are alligator rescues in the Northern States, well out of their normal range, they rescue abandoned or unwanted pets regularly. But as you said, the cold weather negates any chance at their survival. The rumors and consistent stories are more evidence that your big cats don't exist either. The two videos and the toy are prime examples of how people perceive things or just plain lie. And this can be applied to most things like this. You'll probably be able to find people all over the UK with their stories of crocodiles. And yet, none exist. As do not the big cats. Here in the USA you can go just about anywhere and strike up a conversation about black panthers and you'll find someone who has either seen one or knows someone who's seen one. And yet no clear video. It's all very amusing but it also shows how content the human race is with mediocrity. And us, humans, being the WORST eyewitnesses to ANYTHING makes it even scarier to know our criminal justice system routinely convicts people based on that. A big, "Hmmmmm"... Thanks man!
This comment is absolutely spot on!
There’s video on UA-cam in American of crocs in solid ice with there noses sticking out, and if you try and free them they will die, so they can live in cold habitats, that’s how they survive in winter in America, so why wouldn’t they survive here in the uk 🇬🇧 when our winters are so much warmer than yours?????????
@@jackjenkins7980 that’s Alligators and they are only in the southern states which have mild winters.
American Crocs on the other hand only can only survive in south Florida.
I can see an american alligator surviving there cuz they can tolerate the cold
The one on yorkshire looks like an americns alligator crocodile dont have black skin
If a croc was released in summer in the UK it'd be dead in the first winter.
What about the 3 in Cornwall a few weeks ago? What do you think that was?
To cold an a croc must sun itself to get warmth to be active I call 🐂 shite
So this video was entirely pointless in the end weren’t it 😂😂😂😂
Just pet lizards thats mutated from all the dirty needles in bristol
Only 500 subs left mate 👏👌 Soon it will come
You seem to think crocodiles and alligators are the same thing
Seeing a crocodile in the UK would be awesome but scary af
I know right! would be pretty crazy haha
This video is about to blow up!
Let's hope so ey haha
I always thought they were from Dundee..
I once collected a caman that had been dumped in a phone box ..
I'm not from the UK this was very interesting
I know a lot of freshwater turtles are more cold-tolerant than crocs, but there was recently a huge snapping turtle found in Burton on Trent. None of the articles I’ve seen actually specify but based on the reported weight I think it’s an alligator snapper (not a common snapper). That said, although a lot of turtles will survive through the winter they can’t breed (yet) because of the temperature in the UK. Likewise any loose crocs would quickly die out during the winter months. Alligators have the ability to poke their nose above ice and got into a sort of hibernation when it freezes in Florida, but whether they’d be able to last for months on end like this, I doubt it
They thought the same about the Red eared terrapin in regards to the climate being too cool for them to breed in the UK. I remember them saying it wasn't a problem that people released them into park ponds and lakes etc as they would die off eventually, this was back in the early 90's. Now there is areas with huge numbers that are breeding. Guess they adapt, after all reptiles and amphibians are some of the oldest creatures on the planet and can live in some pretty harsh environments too. On another note crocodilians are the toughest, longest lived and probably most resilient of them all so could easily survive here in the UK.
@@rafo6577I do alot of fishing I've seen alot of the teripins in our rivers and they are thriving they seem to cope with all weather types
@nigeisfree7837 yeah, there are Terrapins all over the UK, and like you say, they are thriving here. Even though the experts once said that they wouldn't be a problem as they would die off, because they needed a constant temperature above 15c° to breed. Obviously, this isn't the case and they are more adaptable than they thought.
we have logodiles and rockodiles no crocs
Great video, really sad that people think it’s ok to just dump animals, so glad it got rescued
Furthermore this was jokes 😂
We have that exact same crocodile toy we do
There was some movement in the second video
Lol NO ! TOO COLD GOOD GOD NXT IS EARTH FLAT @
Predatory logs run wild !
I herd of this but didnt believe it
Great video! Interesting things are happening in the UK 😅
Do you think it ate a seagull
can't survive the cold
Great vid thanks
dont be a hater, theres a family of crocs living in the river taff! they use the lidl trolleys as nests!
ffs 😂😂
Class again cookie
Omg you did it
Hahaha I did! Your comment was the final straw and it had to be done
Long before the Internet I remember stories of crocodiles in Cannock chase and then again in around 2008 and 2012 or something but like most no video or photographic evidence. I'm of no doubt that there has or even is a few about, people always releasing stuff or having it escape.
Its Nessie