Are CROCODILES On The LOOSE In The UK??
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2021
- ► 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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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 🤣
Alligators do survive in a dormant state in snow conditions
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
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
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
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!
once again, another awesome video dude!
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.
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
There were reports of a croc in a river in Cambridgeshire some years ago.
Great video as always cookie 🍪👍
Love your videos Cookie........ still fascinated by the big cats though!
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
Great video! Interesting things are happening in the UK 😅
10k soon??! Great video as always
hope so! It's going ok right now :) thank you!
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
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
"Crocodiles cannot be in the UK!"
UK Crocodile: "Hold me chip butty and me brew."
They are though spotted in Scarborough tbus week
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.
I hate these people who use these fake crocodile toys and troll us into thinking it's real and then disappoint us.
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?
You could also do a piece on the small population of Eagle Owls that IS in the UK
5:16 I just gave the biggest sigh. 🤣🤣🤣thank you for covering it a mystery solved
Mate absolutely loving it at the minute keep your Grind up! quality quality videos and I suppose you're alright to 😏😉
Cheers bro! hopefully plenty more to come over the next few weeks + am class and don't forget
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
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.
Great video, really sad that people think it’s ok to just dump animals, so glad it got rescued
There's a pub in Krakow called the Ulica Krokodyli Pub & Cafe named after an escaped crocodile which was found in the local river.
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.
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
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.
that first footage of crocodile looked more like a UFO flying on a cloudy day instead
that's an alligator crocodiles for v-shaped snout alligators have a u-shaped snout
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
Great content again
thank you!
"Logodile" near finished me off, quality 😂
Also some crocodile/gator species survive freezing weathers. When I was younger the weather was a lot colder than now days. I do feel like they could potentially thrive in the uk but it’s to small of a country now for them to get a foothold without us noticing.
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
Good video, though something I learnt during a visit to Texas, alligators can survive for long periods in freezing conditions as by resting in shallow water or embankments & going into a hibernation state where they drop their heart rate & breathing to the minimum level to survive. So, for crocodiles, definitely not 😂, but alligators.. if someone in the south west decides to release their pet, then it does stand a decent chance of survival as with the milder conditions, though for how long a complete frozen alligator can go unnoticed is definitely debatable
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 RUclips today to see if anyone has pet gators in the uk… well I found this and instantly remembered that face and jumper lol
Smashing it atm mate 👌
Cheers bro! happy with how things are going right now so hopefully more to come haha
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.
Only 500 subs left mate 👏👌 Soon it will come
Great vid thanks
Seeing a crocodile in the UK would be awesome but scary af
I know right! would be pretty crazy haha
At BeastWatch UK we expect at least one croc report a year - thank you this made me smile.
Have you ever had to deal with something really weird and out of the ordinary?
@@WildlifeWithCookie I have personally investigated many of the big cat stuff or had others do so. Personally weirdest was a 20 yr old werebear sighting 🙄
I want to buy that boat crocodile thing to troll people haha
Hahaha yeah would be fun! Wonder if you could make a lightweight body for it too lmao
0:44 cameo from your boy
Nice!
Class again cookie
You know the crocodile's camo is effective when you got 2 ppl mistaking a log for a croc
Watching some more this one sounds interesting that is for sure
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.
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
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)
Crocodiles can hibernate to survive a cold winter, they will submerge themselves with only their nostrils sticking out of the water and can survive a few months like this so long as their bodies are in liquid water, even if the waters surface freezes over.
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.
You're right that was definitely Tom Hiddleston
But on a more serious note I'm from Connecticut and I live on a very cold very virile fast-moving River a river you would never expect to find an alligator in but there was one summer where there was an alligator in that River I'm sure somebody released it I mean I had a friend from high school who one day pulled up the floorboards in his apartment and showed me a juvenile alligator missing toes living under his floor🤷♂️ he also had those psychedelic toads but all he did was go to New Hampshire reptile show and bought those things
Cookie the only complaint I have with you is that your videos are too short
Keep up the awesome work 👍😘
Hahaha bless ya! Thanks, I really appreciate it! I'll try my best
I'll be checking your play list to see if you've covered the new Croc x2 sighting lol
I've swam with crocs and alligators in Bristol the place is called reptile zone 😃🐊
This video is about to blow up!
Let's hope so ey haha
Going to put notifications on for new videos coming out in the future
This is a good comment
@@WildlifeWithCookie Put notifications on for new videos coming out in the future
We have that exact same crocodile toy we do
Haha, that's not a crocodile. It's a Komodo dragon
Alligators can survive freezing temperatures.
A croc could possibly survive if it was dumped in the water near a warm water outlet near a power plant or a nuclear reactor but other than that they would die.
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!
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
How did that woman think that tiny toy could be a real crocodile? lmao
Honestly, people are just mental haha
I smashed that like button
I live in Ireland, and I remember Wally
A lot of times you can buy all sorts of animals thinking they are 1 thing then when they grow they are a completely different thing and that's how they end up in the wild
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
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!
What about the 3 in Cornwall a few weeks ago? What do you think that was?
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
We have logadiles in the Seattle area, I saw one in the river a mile from the glacier. The flower water helps them hide.
I once collected a caman that had been dumped in a phone box ..
Hello, I have mixed feelings on this subject. Although alligators and crocodiles cannot survive here it doesn’t mean they don’t visit.
About 33 miles down from the Bristol Channel is a town called Weston-super-mare, just the average seaside town. Well in March 2012 a 8ft-long alligator was spotted in the early hours of the morning and police were called to protect the public. The animal was found in a bad condition and was suffering from the cold. The water was 22 degrees which is actually unheard of for the south-west. It was later rescued and relocated. It was reportedly a young salt-water alligator who just got lost. So there is always the unlikely possibility of crocodiles or alligators in the Bristol Channel but they just won’t be here to stay.
Sounds unlikely. Alligators can't excrete salt, so can't tolerate salt water for extended periods. Crocodiles can, but crocodiles can't handle the cold. Individual American Alligators could survive the UK winter (which isn't all that cold) and there might well be a few escaped / abandoned "pets" about. They are long lived so the same animal could be sighted over an extended period and a wide area. The cool summer would probably prevent breeding though, so no established population.
Honestly, when are we getting a cookie and Forrest Galante collab for finding extinct or rare/animal anomalies?
😂😂😂😂
I'm not from the UK this was very interesting
A croc has been seen in the north sea
Omg you did it
Hahaha I did! Your comment was the final straw and it had to be done
Will there be another episode of the food in the woods?
Yeah! coming soon! I'm getting it lined up for when I go away in a couple weeks
Love it
Remember that big drains and sewers can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding areas , I lived in the NT outback for many years and saw many crocodiles, there are no real crocs in any of the videos you showed !
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
Impossible that croc gonna dead on snowing
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.
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 RUclips 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 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 herd of this but didnt believe it
Imagine if they were in the UK tho🤣 suddenly the Chihuahua eating seagulls will become crocs🤣
Be absolute carnage wouldn’t it 😂😂
Maybe an extinct hairy croc from the ice age is still around, we had hairy mastadons and hairy rhinos so a giant saber-tooth hairy crocodile would fit right in to the glacial fauna. England is so foggy, who can tell a crocodile from a hairy floating log? Until you prove that the saber-tooth croc never ran down caribou across the ice age tundra, I'm hanging on to my dream!
dont be a hater, theres a family of crocs living in the river taff! they use the lidl trolleys as nests!
ffs 😂😂
I always thought they were from Dundee..
10 k soon
hopefully!
To Cold for Krokodile. Next
Can a cold blooded creature that doesn't hibernate survive in the UK it gets fecking cold here.
Geezer. The second "log" was moving like a crocodile. Wasn't it?!