Crocodile preying on tortoise

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Description: English: Two hypothesis explaining how crocodilians may have fed on Aldabra Giant Tortoises during the Pleistocene. a) depicts the crocodile as actively hunting the tortoise, ambushing it at the water hole and attacking its head and neck b) shows the crocodilian scavenging an already dead tortoise. Date: 24 January 2018. Source: Scheyer Torsten M., Delfino Massimo, Klein Nicole, Bunbury Nancy, Fleischer-Dogley Frauke and Hansen Dennis M. 2018Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene R. Soc. open sci.5171800171800 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171800. Author: Scheyer Torsten M., Delfino Massimo, Klein Nicole, Bunbury Nancy, Fleischer-Dogley Frauke and Hansen Dennis M.