crocodile
Australia’s “Top End”: a wetland wildlife wonderland
![Azure Kingfisher, NT Australia](https://irelandswildlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/DSC2138-768x548.jpg)
Awe, tempered with a healthy dose of apprehension. That’s the only way to describe a close encounter with a large saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). Saltwater or estuarine crocodiles, or plain old “Salties” as they’re called in local vernacular, are the largest reptile species on earth, with males routinely exceeding 4 metres in length, and some specimens reaching….