Crocodiles can remain submerged for as long as an hour. Because they are slow moving and cold blooded, they are able to survive on about the same amount of food as a small bird. A crocodile will attack just about anything that goes near the water, but sticks to eating fish most of the time, with occasional turtles, small animals and birds. They also enjoy tasty raccoons, muskrats and even capybara, the most popular treat of the South American caiman. Nile crocodiles cooperate in food gathering by forming a dam with their bodies to catch fish.
Crocodilians have community nurseries where one mother watches over the hatchlings of many.
The way crocodilians live and work as members of a group is one sign of their unique intelligence. Their survival as a species since the age of dinosaurs is another proof of perfect adaptation to their environment. Cold Blood, Warm Heart Baby between eggs speaks. Like other reptiles all of which are cold-blooded, alligators and other crocodilians lay eggs. Crocodilians may be cold blooded but not completely cold hearted.