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deadly crocodiles of the nile river & sahara desert [full nature wildlife documentary]
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the Sahara's the largest desert on earth and without water
the last place you'd expect to find crocodiles good
but now to discoveries in this desert may change this view
for ever well
in Egypt the lost world the Pharaohs is being honest
third reveals how they once worshipped the crocodile as a god
and across the other side of the Sahara a young researchers made another
extraordinary discovery
by the
the Feroz crocodiles were thought to be lost for ever
has she found line in the heart of the desert
the
thousands have years ago
the Sahara was green and fertile the
the animals at the plane's migrated homes
and in the middle is the mighty night
one killer
news
the Nile crocodile was a danger to both and beast
yet each sparrows it was sick decathlete
love so back the crocodile headed god
known as got into the water
so be it was thought to have powers that extended to the very creation
the world
but as the Pharaohs power faded around two thousand years ago
the crocodile began to lose its sacred status
hunted from the rivers and with the sands of the Sahara closing in
the Feroz crocodiles have nowhere left to go
it was the same across oliver north africa
in one of the most dramatic changes a climate in human history
the rain stops falling and the Sahara
was born C
is
crocodiles come home to breed without water
as the desert took over the water God faced an impossible
future
according to the books the Nile Giants vanished from North Africa
for ever
the Lord's at the waterhole engulfed by the sands of time
but is the story of the Pharaohs crocodiles really a closed book
far to the west across four thousand kilometers have Sahara sand
one young researchers not so sure
hmmm
29-year-old Tara shine has lived and worked on the edge of the desert in
Mauritania after more than two years
she came here from Island
as an ecologist studying the rare occurrence have water in the desert
but now she's been drawn into completely different mystery
when she arrived in Mauritania tower had never heard of the Pharaohs lost
crocodiles
but since then
all around her she's heard tales and giant reptiles
idea travelers dismissed such beasts as large monitor lizards
which widespread here but I want to know more
demonic alright setup tyco
yeah okay okay Glasson
much of the talk has centered on a tiny settlement on the southern fringe at the
Sahara
we haven't mass first two years ago
a journey here was to change her life for ever
10 include by luck
no on 11 faster did she know what crocodiles
square inches a gash knows exactly what they are and that there are crushed as
here
that over here east is the place called them
whether I know how I there are some crocodiles and I said you know you're
sure it's not I'm
have monitor lizard is something she doesn't know they're different
she thought sheldon well limit
50 hello my love how dare you left when I came here I probably only sub talk
about anything so I didn't have any particular
affinity for crocodiles it was just Chan chance that I talk to people that they
told me their stories
and then eventually one day I thought right to have to go and
and see whether this is for real and I'll this parched landscape along the
desert range
can go with rain for eight months of the year it seems the most unlikely place to
find an animal that spends most of its life in the water
but the nomads a convinced workmen
clear it wouldn't feel that often their last Super
at Burnley rockwell thumbnail welcome home worth
both ace is now at them it they've got it definitely not a monitor lizard
because I'm gonna love them and they're always in the water
pluck the teeth here 10 2012 but whatever but they know I'm
games in Molalla you clearly I voted in the book but
oh yeah big ones like this where who was awarded
with *** they're doing that the who include and go to work
said describing the washer plain weird again noble noble noble
work with the where the water is deeper way over my head and skewed in Hartland
and he's been over there anything lots and lots of progress he said
and they sometimes take girls and they can even take a cab if they want it
the
water above one's head is a clue the tower
con Technol
mentioned sir first real sign tracks the scene too big to be elicited
30 minutes
come here you can see a tail dragging along the sand
its to feast one here and one here
this is a little bit much but he can clearly see
plus size clothes at her website and the center
and then digging into the close as it means of the latter action
on and
I'm
yo good Tara be right
by the expert sarongs
this
back
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the
on
the
the in
by
by
it's true the books have got it wrong crocodiles are alive and well in the
desert serve Mauritania
like ghosts come back to life d
when I got them really low interest 'cause up onto the scene here could
really get a close look at them and in just a bit weird because they just don't
fit in the landscape didn't look like they should be in there
they look and they were like left behind like I said if it prehistoric a
dinosaur left of America the gorgeous places to turn away sitting there
in the desert leveling by but where do these animals come from
are the descendants have the giant killers at the Nile will the trailer
that ancestry
lead all the way back to the Pharaohs when the crocodile was worshipped
as a god
excavations in
egypt is shedding a whole new light on that time three thousand years ago
when Sobek rules know where was he more revered in here in Crockett a lot less
the ancient city of crocodiles 100 kilometers from
think I rubbed
at a British Army an Italian archaeologists to spend 25 years
studying
Egypt varied history most recent discoveries are set to send shockwaves
through the world
antiquities the new the temples are provided tantalizing glimpses of what
happened to the Pharaohs crocodiles
the dead is searching for the holy grail of archaeologists
the a key piece of evidence the camera the little story
your Salima Ikram from cairo is American Institute
is a lifelong to vote either the cult at the crocodile
gonna
she's come to crooked of the list to see and his fines for herself
them reactivated
and 7 he's in a non
let you book and pianist
around 380 following an earthquake 3
these temples were sealed up for some reason and left untouched
as to be swallowed by the desert sands and after
the school dist bad all this is dedicated of Carterton
good ok with that and is gradually exposing a snapshot in time here
revealing the relationship between the Egyptian priests and this sacred Giants
Mon
didn't think about that one only one
but the rebound and not delve the that the good I am
know me and for me and some be assured movin
it seems that in the temples happened on the Nile
thousands of crocodiles were sacrificed to so bad anymore
in the belief that he controlled the floodwaters and keep the land
for Tom
do in the catacombs of temples like a mambo
the fair is crocodiles can still be found perfectly preserved
in modified form hard
actually working with each battle only he'd keep the money like this
may provide DNA could be used to compare ancestry with the living crocodiles
found by Tara
not be tuned for Salima this specimen is a window
on the ancient ritual a sacrifice skills very well-preserved
them
still got some bandages up here cool down
movement back the teacup tapping
really fantastic must to stuff the mouth with something
com looks actually like mud
them
love the meeting to mountaineering two thousand years ago
in this very spot this property I would have been laid out on a table
just like this one they would have burned incense to protect and guard
against
and the evil spirit that we went to the bar little stop
bandaged and slowly using precedent in
but you can still see here they prolly Pete all over
with reston and then they would have tipped
the bandages into the oils and resins and wrapped them
around crocodile with arms holding time
separately saturated with resins and then they would hug game
amulet to keep the cooktop protected he would make it to the of to live safely
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the mall though artifacts like these have given as
inside since the call to the crocodile they can only really shows what happened
to these animals and S
the new very little about their lives
them
until now
the
less this
tetas de Caracas is starting to provide some answers
the home network abrahms is now emerging from the Sun
showing the palm between the priests and crocodiles
was more complex than anyone imagined like to listen to them
p
the
the so can the secret servicing and Egypt
helped or understand how crocodile survived in Mauritania
today the of
the
have water who like this one is a lifeline to the Nomad severe
supply they would share it with a *** about electing potentially take their
life to
incredible
as to refine zone
it seems the traces at the old Egyptian reverence
still exist the crocodiles here and have a huge advantage in that where
local people and protect them they have no interest in
in easing them are killing them for their skins
they also attached to certain miffed because they're semi
sacred value to them in West people believe that if the crocodiles go then
the water wells fargo
because they are linked in association with the presence of water
it would make sense
that the answer to the crocodile survival has to do with the sacred
belief
in their connection with water ok
deeper into serb-held to the east there is a small village in Mali
inhabited by people who don't go on
this isolated location can reveal exactly how crocodiles can survive
against all the odds
thanks to a reference from the human neighbors mom
here the bond between man and reptile is like nowhere else on Earth
the egyptians tortoise so bad have the power to control the mile
by withholding releasing sweat on
today the joke on a crusade precious water as dependent
on the crocodiles I do you remember dole's what began a
really big on your are your your amendment panic when
to the algerian a big game
many new one memo to a billion contempt alum attending
far as I i liability will
and their ability to work well
met william levy nude in the middle school
but there are difficulties in sharing your home
with China predators
the
know my guy to do i win lives up here
something in common
what happen
nope
Virginia no I'm
little dropper no you know I'm gonna love you and what do you mean
more than what are our movement that emerged i dnt
montana so make it difficult
may want this ok with you but I yeah look alike
include Nigel McCulloch
United I'm a dye job I'm a long journey for medallion with this
to ward off this disaster the villagers have appointed
a crocodile keeper
he's not only man is the local butcher
but in these parts his ability to communicate with crocodiles
his legendary ok
ok
ok
ok
ok
ok
up
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how the Harlem about whether anybody with it but orthodox
little
this
school the turtles crocodiles
on scene is God's but they are thought to possess mystical powers
ok under a dire warnings for anyone who doesn't treat them with respect
cool cool a dumb country
gonna moon hope you're all growed up ground on
way out will call travel more fluent
the dough gone
and the crocodiles and side by side for as long as people can remember
here the crocodile cold lives on
them
where this remote places and I'll on the time
when so back rules
is
at one others at that kinda died out
this small group survives but only by the grace
at the human guardians
no
ok you
list so on Thomas crocodiles in Mauritania simply another relic
the past like those in money a few survivors hanging on this humans took
off to them
could they make it on their own the truly wild
the
in this part of africa for a short time in August the heavens
open
C
this deluge that will show that are the true extent
her discovery
are
almost overnight the rain returns the desert to its
ancient green
am this moment remove life
his time subject what she came here to study
in the air this look like green meanness in between the two independent down here
you really loves
you really just a little paradise an oasis in the
in the desert if you like once again
she stumbling across crocodiles other here's where
a huge a.m. completely
its they stage in their last think aloud
this time it isn't just a few survivors in an isolated
cool suddenly that everywhere you know in a way back there
seem kinda thing his just sitting at a
well actually log his holding cell bad
up to the ranch a little bit fixed hardly relaxed
horses anymore
Hey
the room whenever 50 crocodiles in this temp remake is a discovery that goes
against who
previous scientific presumption
it's time to find out some of the biology of these animals
but to do that towers going to need some experts held
in
the
ground had again blank check fine
hello nikol as a friend and reptile expert
if anyone can help us solve the riddle of the Lost crocodiles
think he can here and I'm steaming over here we are in an open
and both in a case in radio land wetland the
that dries up to a temple wash area but even nationally skeptical about the
arrival of crocodiles in the desert
in springs yes sure that's crocodiles I mean no
money solicits or whatever but they are then I know what amounted every says the
only two months later i've seen in months it is a thing of money today that
they are cropped as they have long head
Keith let it is I think but you don't believe me
tower together a piƱata
no you're here where own
big
old lovely no I caught him on because I'm not a herpetologist I was studying
wetlands a wetland ecology but
when as well as he is in a special issue that I have so I call him to try and
understand
why a bad wonder how important at find where these crackas what did it mean
just changed to the skin cancer
much attacks across I
for I
cryptic for the back of always always the person or the bag if it
well provided by CBS
pic Tara can only hope that he's better at catching crocodiles
danny is it snakes and to catch a crocodile
you need to get out on the water you have a boat
have a very small left children but then I brought over and I collect water
samples from
but I mean it tiny them
be
on I'm 1 percent
but this may seem like a bad idea
a rubber dinghy on a crocodile infested lagoon
in the middle of the night by
but it's the only way to find out more about these animals and whether they
have not complied
in their pains well car
decently minute chained
damn
called can turn around him a I like
dislike a min good evening
lived
she's tiny filled headquarter youngster
no more than a year old the may be small
but it's got back on the morning leads cries are treating rather too much
interest from the Idaho alcohol and yet they'll coming this way this time
include going to run and had no
now the center of attention I'm them
the situation is getting more dangerous but it's a perfect chance to land a
larger specimen
guys
by
when just over a meter long
but then says the boat
okay are around yeah
spent our I can finally get her hands on her elusive crocodiles
it's the first time for her but it's also the first time that these crooks
about to be an exam in close and I'm
yeah I didn't start there then here this in 22
pay even in bed counting the pennies scales may give a clue to its ancestry
11 where in eighteen known known and no for using
mean cool the money we need is a DNA sample
like my replacing them into hit the skin the Lisa
so and the legs in the belly taking a clipping from the tail skid
as a simple and his pain this is cutting a human turn LT
and it may provide the answers towers looking for exactly where these animals
came from
and how closely related they are to the ancients at the Nile
need to find out
that have to wait for the lapd that even if they discover the crocodiles
origins the burning question still remains
how on earth did they survive at all in a place that may not see a drop of water
when over half the year
the for now
it's hard to imagine this is the desert it September
the rains have worked their magic and the wetland is providing bounty for all
kinds of animals
the mall
a young crocodile must watch out that he does not become lunch
but this is a time to hone the deadly skills
to which they kinda seven and is
is the 0
young cop that Sony few months TE's while this was a lad
so they have to be perfect they are so hunting quite quickly
the but unfortunately they have no one to teach still has that they're also
that at the beginning
well
huh
by so this guy's
living here happy at the moment earth seems like quite a lot and I crocodiles
but the question is what do they do
to wash it disappears had any survived today's
had a slight heat I really have no idea
what happens to the minutes late riser K right now
this is crocodile heaven but soon
all this water will be gone only then will Tara be able to explore the final
secrets
at her crocodiles unlikely story under her feet is late to start a bad story
the biggest miracle at their survival
while Tara weights across the other side at the Sahara in Egypt
editor is realizing the Pharaohs priests knew more about their crocodiles biology
than anyone had dreamed them
the
ETA and her team have uncovered a secret chamber
and with it a whole new dimension to this ancient world
hmm
wrong in this room
is evidence that's never seen the light of day before a series of small
water tanks a specially designed crocodile nursery
huh
this is where the Pharaohs crocodiles were raised during the early years
in a room carefully created to provide ideal temperature and humidity
that
and in a corner this chamber EDA
on Earth's the biggest surprise all on
a clutch of 30 on hatched eggs undisturbed
for more than two thousand years on
it's the first evidence of where the fair is crocodiles came from
the priests didn't just 101 crocodiles for sacrifice
they knew not to return from love
%uh for the first time we get the full picture of the
that
some crocodiles were decorated with gold buttons
the temple grounds like
Giants those believed to embody Sobek himself
treated more like the pampered pets have money and feared predators
on
low
that
1
so bad was related to reckon
princeton crocodile god were bound together from cradle to grave
from to the to
the new this is ted has big discovery
mom
home
home off guard
hey we're soul excited the sole
who love their soup rice and like get a meet me at Apple
because we come from take this I'll the gold itself
for something the team member this but that the coastal
the
this strange twist in the tale
shows that the Pharaohs crocodiles depended on the temple guardians
da whole life cycle was connected to the priests crocodile cult
am
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without their divine status and protection maybe the crocodiles decline
was inevitable
the hatchlings destined to turn to dust
the
so on these long dead gods related to the living crocodiles tara has found in
Mauritania
on
the DNA Tarun hammer collected has now been matched against the engine samples
extracted in Egypt
the results show times living crocodiles do share the same original Nile
bloodline has the Faeroe sacred beasts
for the crucial differences in summer the sequences have their DNA
over thousands of years these crocodiles and others in western Africa
like those in Mali have been isolated for so long
they become a species and their home right
here the march to the desert has forced the water got to change
this is one of the hottest places anywhere on Earth
if tones crocodile survive here all year round famous face temperatures
more than 50 degrees in the shade
if tyra is to discover how these animals can adapt to such conditions
fast should have to find them this was all wars a few months ago
and is got nothing left net I can see the
water level act in the trees or I am now what it would have been up to bed here
and I would have been walking to wash a lease in Wasilla axis
and the it's all gone there were
event 50 crocodiles Anna
I don't know where they're gonna and cleaned
not if allowed to be a cameo and man out of pic to be
but other man than if they're known and unknown ID
then add the address I've been with us and also that i truly that up
he's a very bright start licking your Hillary supporter could the
at the cat out of the flooded he said that day
crocodiles are entries have been gone into holding the trees
the what because the water is gone definiciĆ³n the big hole in it not true
they've gone
but a feel
there's no way that the crocodiles in the trees
but they could be in a hole like this one
think
0 this seems the most likely place to look
but if there are crocodiles in there is it a good idea to stick your head down
to see
nothing more than a rare that I can't think that was the way back
only then I
I hair
okay well I
it's tough work pushing back the boundaries of science
that with but this time tara's got back up
the cavalry is on its way
the
on
has seen wildlife films she's watched Bolduc am
and uncommon action and a toy shop back home has provided her with the gadget
around
the instructions on the box Pacific Lycee do not
operate in saint
but she's not about to give up
Chris Miller the right
the pushkin
yeah yeah
me they were allowed to you let me know honey bees I'm gonna shoot a deficit
a show me from he go now to give up
yet they being hunted and their admit that was a good chance to the Crown
alleges grab it and I don't see it again
I
right there and then
going on bro and very low
entangled in signing day just a really gentle certain amount
declined
long-running little tiny very tiny man who was seen
crocodiles have been recorded hiding in Paris before the book say they dig down
a few meters at most
10 cams at 50 meters and still going down
so deep but imagine having taken the team
0 and I was a 4
doing this one one passes going off to the left I'm going to ride
going up to the lapd's left
no
yeah
farming I look at that
him and
said by 9am is a good guy and I can look at it faith
look at the eighteen
or he
may be fine he's remaining you just tying them
go far right front leg and I do know is that a slave is a
we think it would move
it is it clear but here man in summer
own not me I'm not a man's teeth practically any meaning
asleep in crock seems to make sense
it maybe they're shutting down their bodies to sit out the heat
this kind of stupid has been seen in other run-ins
it's an extreme survival tactic known as East abating
and there seemed to be sleep is down every fork in the tunnel
all good 10 2012
two hands looking at me yeah actually mean anything to anyone here who
for means that they're
Volpe and flung Riya just really don't know
what on earth the tank is but the extent to which these crocodiles
Easter dating will need to be debated by the experts because not all the animals
here
a soca down
them following a while
you can see it like it is I my
team but
owner may be one this item but a baby on a small island he will not
me
Highland published work and to observe a group of Nile crocodiles have different
ages
all living together twenty meters underground and
a dried up desert this is something no one's ever seen before
of and tire is about to witness another biological fast
the you are
yet again crocodiles appear in with not supposed to be
on
room
do
baby crocodiles know many had strayed from the egg to water
often with the help of their mother
but their mothers nowhere to be seen and there's no water for hundreds of miles
so how do they know what to do which way to go
one by one the tiny hatchlings make their way across the dried mud
and down into the safety of a bar on they've evolved a whole new strategy for
survival
to discover how the crocodile surviving they're dry period that they don't
long deeper as I mean to to put the tank then the bio and and send us
you know who's over 50 meters down hole
to find a crocodile at the end of it i mean that's amazing and then finding
eggs hatching
tiny little cafe deformed baby crocodiles
and knowing that you know the population is reproducing anne's
in going to be here hopefully for a good while longer that that's really nice
poem
stay
soon the water will be back again
Justice says that was believed to have the power to foretell the flooding of
the Nile
these hatchlings time they start in life to hit the coming up the reins
the for Tara this is the last crucial piece in the puzzle
she's not only discovered so because I live in the desert
marette a Nia but she started to unravel extraordinary ability
to beat the onslaught of the desert sands three
so bad has turned out to have more staying power than anyone gave him
credit for my
it seems the egyptians chose their crocodile god
weld they admired not just the power
the Giants
brazilians but the young
the Feroz crocodiles have been discovered and they not only lords and
the water
but of the signs the I respect for the crooked on his mission is to preserve
the ferrous
here in the most improbable have places
an unlikely ally has discovered own bond
with an animal she never expected to come into life
I'm from Ireland trying to talk about 20 life and i dont
no now I'm terribly interested in fact does but just because over
the way life turn tags
I'm already finding other crop it out populations have seen in rocky areas and
paint
just the start is not having the mischief has incredible animals survive
on