Environmental portrait of a single Estuarine crocodile, an apex predator, sunbaking at low tide on the Mowbray River near Port Douglas in Australia.

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The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia.

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Size: 7333px × 4889px
Location: Mowbray River, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia
Photo credit: © Marco Trovalusci Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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