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JP-Expanded SB Gryposuchus

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As promised, I continue with the jp expanded series

Name: Gryposuchus croizati
Codename:"Cutter"
Length: up to 11 metres
weight: 1,75- 2 tons
Time: Early Miocene
Agressiveness: 25% not agressive
Dangerousness: 70 % Dangerous!

Gryposuchus is the biggest gharial ever and therefore it cant be excluded in the parks list. This animal, despite its frightening appearence, is mostly a gentle giant. Like its modern counterpart, this gharial eats only fish and small animals. Gryposuchus has needlesharp teeth in its elongated jaw. These teeth can cut a fish in half, hence its codename cutter, for its behavior to cut easily to its prey items. Gryposuchus males are bigger than females. Unlike many other reptiles cloned for inGen, this animal isnt in the reptile house on the second island of the park, instead a paddock was built around a swampy river terrain of one of the second islands rivers. This river is near the reptile house and has swampy areas as well as more clear ones as Gryposuchus prefers both. inGen files show that this animal lives mostly in the water and is active mostly in the evening. During the day, they can often be seen lying on the river banks , opening their big jaws to cool themself. SO far 5 Gryposuchus have been breeded, one male and 4 females. These re already on the island and are one of the big attractions of the parks second island. As said, this animal eats mostly fish and they are feeded one time a day by the keepers although they also hunt the normal fishes which live in their habitat anyway. These feedings are also though to become a public magnet. Gryposuchus produces hissing sounds and our male already shows the ghara on the end of its snout. Although not very agressive to humans, they can be very dangerous as the females protect their nests. For that they not only use their jaws, their tail is extremely powerful and can easily kill a human with a single blow !. One keeper had to find this out on Isla sorna as he came to close to a nest and got a painful hit with the tail of a gryposuchus female. 2 broken ribs were the result of the hit. Gryposuchus was cloned before isla sorna was abandonded. Although they were bred under the sb program, they can be found on Isla sorna in the wild and also on Site C. Gryposuchus doesnt wander into the ocean like the modern saltwater crocs, gryposuchus is a completel fresh water based animal. They are elegant but also very powerful swimmers and if neccesary the can quickly come out of the water. Gryposuchus´feet carry swimming mebranes which are the biggest of an of our bred giant crocs. Although its was cloned quite early, not very much is known about the behaviour of this giant, probably because they are masters of disguise. Keepers like this crocodilian as it isnt as dangerous as some of the parks other crocs like deinosuchus or purusssaurus which are also set to be included in the park. It seems that gryposuchus gets along with purusssaurus. This is probably because they lived together in the miocene in the same area and prefeed different feeding styles. They dont compete with each other as found out on Site C were a small purussaurus population is present.

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KalahariMeerkatfan's avatar
It kind of looks like a smaller version of the Sarcosuchus, but with a less roundness to the end of their muzzle.

Could you maybe include a Nothosaurus to your JP-expanded? They are relatives of the Tanystropheus, kind of smaller with short neck, legs, and tail...they're cool though.