One more wonderful poem, @sourcherry! I did enjoy when reading. Perfect mood about crocs! I'd just wish to argue a little bit about such words:
The crocodile is the river king,
Much fear he can bring.
Prowling the river day and night
Keeping mostly out of sight.
Crocs have also to be careful about big predators. Once I've faced some dead croc in Zambia, Luangwa river bed. You may have a look... Seems some lion might kill it, or may be even hippo... You may see he resulted in not having a half of upper jaw.
Thank you for your comments. That's terrible for the crocodile. In Australia we don't really have those sorts of larger predators here so the crocodile is higher up in the food chain and more dominant in the rivers.
Of course they also have a very low survival rate - as babies 99 percent do not make it due to predators at this stage of life.