Chapter 362 - 185: Fishing for Yangtze Alligator_3
On the Yangtze Alligator, we can still find many characteristics of early dinosaur reptiles, which is why people call the Yangtze Alligator a living fossil.
The main reason it has survived from ancient times to the present is that the crocodile’s temperament and combat ability are too, too, too, too, too weak....
In earliest times, there were actually many types of crocodiles in our country, but the most ferocious ones, the man-eaters, were wiped out by Han Yu during the mid Tang Dynasty, leaving only the Yangtze Alligator with its extremely weak fighting ability.
Just how weak is the Yangtze Alligator?
If it’s wild and desperately hungry, entering a village, it might not even find something to eat; its combat ability is comparable to that of a duck, and it cannot beat geese, cats, or dogs. It’s just that trashy, and it also has a strong curiosity.
It is said by the older generation that when the Yangtze Alligators were more numerous, they would curiously swim over when people were washing clothes by the river, and then be chased away when the elderly ladies hit them on the head with their laundry sticks.
Over many years, there have been almost no records of them injuring people. While there have certainly been injuries, there might really be no cases of maiming or death.
The most recent time it made headlines was because of its fondness for eating snow cakes and the event to release 1,000 Yangtze Alligators.
Many were curious as to why release 1,000 crocodiles, but the local folks had little reaction, knowing that even if you release a thousand, or even ten thousand, these creatures would not pose any threat to humans.