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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:21 PM Mar 2015

Water you looking at? Fearless impala comes nose to nose with crocodile while drinking from lake...

Water you looking at? Fearless impala comes nose to nose with crocodile while drinking from lake... and doesn't bother to run

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2995606/Springbok-comes-nose-nose-crocodile-Kruger-National-Park-South-Africa.html#ixzz3UTYsf3JW

Amazing!

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Water you looking at? Fearless impala comes nose to nose with crocodile while drinking from lake... (Original Post) steve2470 Mar 2015 OP

Suspect both animals recognize that croc is too small. DirkGently Mar 2015 #1

Also it is a telephoto effect. alphafemale Mar 2015 #2

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)

1. Suspect both animals recognize that croc is too small.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:25 PM

Mar 2015

That's a bitty juvenile croc. When he/she grows up and is 16 feet long and 1,000 pounds or so, they'll both probably feel differently about close encounters at Ye Olde Water Hole.

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)

2. Also it is a telephoto effect.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:33 PM

Mar 2015

The photo was taken from a good distance away.

The croc is likely at least 6 feet to the left of the impala rather than directly in front of it.

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