False gharial
Tomistoma schelgelii / False gharial
- Habitat
- swampy rainforests with rivers and lakes
- Continent
- Asia
- Food
- Fish, but also other vertebrates; as juvenile also invertebrates
- Gestation/breeding period
- 72 - 90 days
- Mode of life
- Solitary
- Class
- Reptiles
- Order
- Crocodilia
Key facts
~ 6 m
size
~ 300 kg
weight
~ 60 years
age
How endangered are False gharials?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
- Least concern
- Near threatened
-
Vulnerable Vulnerable - Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
False gharials lay the largest eggs of all crocodiles at 7.5 centimetres.
False gharial on the zoo tour
