This actually shows the perfect thing of why you don’t feed wild animals (I know this one is in captivity, but it’s no less ‘wild’). So the crocodile has learned to associate the slapping of the water like that with food, hence why he charges up so quickly and hence why he instantly settles when he gets the food. He definitely associates humans with food as well, but that sound is the real trigger for him.
Now, if you feed animals in the wild they too will associate humans with food, except they’re not being carefully conditioned that the ‘slap’ is the real trigger, especially if it’s more than one person feeding them. So they just associate humans in general with food they see a human and they think ‘food’. They’re wild animals, they don’t actually feel attachment for the humans either, so they won’t be shy about grabbing a human’s arm/leg if that should be closest to their mouth instead of a chunk of meat the human throws to them.
A normal croc will not normally charge out of the water like this after a person. I mean it does happen from time to time, but if they really wanted to eat us that badly there’d be a hell of a lot more dead people from crocodile attacks. But a croc that’s learned humans=food will totally react like this whether it’s in an enclosure or in the wild; and this is why it’s so important not to feed wild animals! Especially predatory animals and large prey animals (if it’s big enough to accidentally crush you and not domesticated than it’s dangerous to get it to associate humans with food).
This actually shows the perfect thing of why you don’t feed wild animals (I know this one is in captivity, but it’s no less ‘wild’). So the crocodile has learned to associate the slapping of the water like that with food, hence why he charges up so quickly and hence why he instantly settles when he gets the food. He definitely associates humans with food as well, but that sound is the real trigger for him.Now, if you feed animals in the wild they too will associate humans with food, except they’re not being carefully conditioned that the ‘slap’ is the real trigger, especially if it’s more than one person feeding them. So they just associate humans in general with food they see a human and they think ‘food’. They’re wild animals, they don’t actually feel attachment for the humans either, so they won’t be shy about grabbing a human’s arm/leg if that should be closest to their mouth instead of a chunk of meat the human throws to them.A normal croc will not normally charge out of the water like this after a person. I mean it does happen from time to time, but if they really wanted to eat us that badly there’d be a hell of a lot more dead people from crocodile attacks. But a croc that’s learned humans=food will totally react like this whether it’s in an enclosure or in the wild; and this is why it’s so important not to feed wild animals! Especially predatory animals and large prey animals (if it’s big enough to accidentally crush you and not domesticated than it’s dangerous to get it to associate humans with food).