#gharial

[kaijutegu]

mods are asleep post Front Gharial

#gharial #crocodilian #reptiblr #this way people can have Front Gharial without a long post #everybody wins when they see Front Gharial

[arminreindl]

#crocodile #crocodilian #reptiles #herpetology #croc #gharial #meme

[herpsandbirds]

Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus), male with babies, family Gavialidae, National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, India

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Dhritiman Mukherjee

#gharial #gavialis #crocodilian #gavialidae #reptile #herpetology #india #animals #nature

[bogcreacher]

Gharial momemce + my SandWing Queen

#my art #oc art #oc stuff #wof art #wings of fire #horst #dragon art #gharial #veld

[malkshake]

• Redbubble • Society6 • TeePublic • INPRNT • Wallpapers • InkedGaming •

the crocos are free 🐊✨

#pattern #cute #crocodile #alligator #caiman #gharial #reptiles

[nmfonsek-art]

Other color variants I like

#illustration #sketch #art #digital art #digital illustration #drawing #nicolas moreno #crocodile #pool #swimming pool #lowbrow #pattern #animals art #animals #reptiles #false gharial #gharial #prints #RadarPlz

[boomartist]

Life guard Callie!

#art #furry #meme #funny #cute #artists on tumblr #reptile #lizard #lizard art #crocodile girl #crocodile #gharial #anthro

[avpol]

tiger gharial eats the sun

#polly art !! #gharial #mythology #folklore #original

[so-engery]

Lizards from my m e m o r y

#lizard #comic #illustration #art #comics #sketchbook #animals #lizards #marie enger #nature #weird #dumb #creatures #maybe I’ll make a shirt #alligator #gharial #skink

[weremagnus]

Riel the gharial, a character I created for some digital stickers. Here is his character turnaround, the sticker art, and concept sketches when designing him.

#my work #anthro #furry #sketches #gharial #character design #concept art

[spinchboli]

This but it's my special interests

#frilled shark #goblin shark #gharial #rattlesnake #olms #lancetfish #deep sea life #deep dea sharks #deep sea fish gotta be one of my favorite genders #deep sea creatures #shark #sharks #snake #reptiles #reptiles are my favorite gender #deep sea #autism posting #ichthyology #herpetology

[ollyneanderthal]

hybrids 2: uakari mermaids

since it’s mermay!

#ollyneanderthal art #creature design #mermay 2023 #mermay #mermaid #chimera #monster design #uakari #new world monkey #coelacanth #peacock worm #deep sea #gharial #seahorse #speculative biology #monkey

[arminreindl]

Croc colours and patterns

Somewhat inspired by a recent post by Joschua Knüppe, I feel like it's a good thing to remind people just how diverse colours and patterns in modern crocodilians are. When I see people make art, it often seems to stick to grey or yellowish-brown tones, which is of course not incorrect. But theres a lot of, imo, underappreciated variety still. It's also worth noting beforehand that patterns are most striking in younger individuals and naturally become more muddy the older and larger an animal becomes. But as you will see, even some decently large and old animals may maintain a striking appearance.

Take this alligator for example. Gators tend to be on the darker side, dark greys to black, sometimes countershaded and sometimes pretty consistent. Some individuals, like this one photographed by Gar Luc, still retain clearly visible stripe patterns from when they are younger.

Or take one of my favourite species, the Cuban Crocodile, which can appear almost bright yellow with a dense pattern of leopard spots. Of course like with the gator you can find individuals that are much more drab, with washed out colours, but individuals with clearly defined patterns still exist.

Then there's gharials of course. They can range quite a bit in colouration. They can be brown, especially younger ones and females and I've seen males range in colour from a drab grey to almost a light blue or even something that could be described as metalic black.

Black Caimans are also pretty interesting in my opinion and pretty easy to tell apart from other species once you pay attention to their colour. They are primarily a deep dark black of course, but what sets them apart from spectacled and other caimans is that very fine pattern of thin white stripes across the flanks that creates this beautiful contrast. They can also have patches of brown like the one on the right.

Orinocos also vary a great deal. Tho I know less about them than I wish I did, I know that individuals can range from drab brownish greys to yellow to somewhat earthy browns that almost range into reds.

The next ones a bit of an outlier. There are specific cave dwelling dwarf crocodile populations in western Africa with striking orange colouration. Tho this one is not exactly natural pigmentation to my knowledge and instead the result of the chemicals present in the water they inhabit, brought there by bat guano. Still very pretty animals.

And then there's Paleosuchus, the dwarf caiman which contains two species. Again highly varied. The first image, which I believe is a Schneider's dwarf caiman, shows a very earthy brown. The others, which unless I'm mistaken are Cuvier's dwarf caimans, show colours ranging from dark with a rusty head, black to this still beautifully patterned individual. Of course these variations are also subject to change with age.

While salties aren't exactly known to be the most vibrant, I'd be remissed if I didn't mention this specific one. It's kept in a zoo in Germany and has this almost bizarre colour combination of creamy white underbelly and chocolate brown top which I've never seen in another saltwater crocodile. Photos by my friends Markus Bühler from the Bestiarium blog and René Dederich

Spectacled, Broad-snouted and Yacare caimans I'll give a quick shout out. I think most people are familiar enough with how they look like and while their colours aren't anything special, I still think one should appreciate their patterns of spots and stripes and facial markings.

The last one I wanna highlight is the false gharial, Tomistoma, another one of my favourites. Part of the reason why being its at times beautiful reddish-brown colours.

#crocodiles #crocs #gharial #gator #alligator #crocodilian #herpetology #reference #colours #inspiration #paleoart inspiration

[herpsandbirds]

False Gharial aka Malayan Gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), family Gavialidae, found in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia

Historically, there has been some disagreement about how this species should be placed. At one time, some herpetologists believed this species should be placed in the crocodile family, Crocodylidae. There is vast agreement now that they should be placed in the Gharial family, Gavialidae.

photograph by Junkyardsparkle

#gharial #tomistoma #gavialidae #crocodilian #reptile #herpetology #animals #nature #asia

[bogcreacher]

mudwing villain concepts. they exist in the same universe as these two

#oc art #my art #oc stuff #wof art #wings of fire #horst #dragon art #wof #gharial #mudwing

[nmfonsek-art]

I really love doing color explorations, this lil friend is always a good excuse to do it.

#illustration #sketch #art #digital art #digital illustration #drawing #nicolas moreno #crocodile #pool #pattern #animals #reptiles #false gharial #gharial