Mugger crocodile is a freshwater crocodile
inhabiting tanks, rivers, villus, reservoirs and also sometime in saltpans of
dry lowlands. Mugger Juveniles feeds on
insects and small vertebrates such as fish and frogs while adults hunt mammals
as large as deer as well as small mammals, water birds, fish, turtles, snakes
etc. It is said that when capturing fishes it remains with its jaws open until
one swims by and then seize with a snap (Deraniyagala P.E.P. 1939). Occasionally
it attacks humans. It aestivate in the jungle during the drought until rainy
season comes. It is estimated that total population of Mugger in Sri Lanka
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