Too hot in here (Image: Kevin Aitken/Peter Arnold/Still Pictures)
CROCODILES could find it harder to locate food and take refuge from predators as global warming bites.
So says of the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Australia. His team recorded the dives made by 10 juvenile freshwater crocodiles in Lakefield National Park, Queensland, over 15 days in both summer and winter.
Campbell’s group tagged the crocs – which dive periodically to catch food, rest and avoid predators – with two recorders that clocked time underwater, the depth reached and the water temperature. The team found that the crocs’ dives were, on average, 2 minutes…
